外国文学里有一种所谓论文，其中大约可以分作两类。一批评的，是学术性的。二记述的，是艺术性的，又称作美文，这里边又可以分出叙事与抒情，但也很多两者夹杂的。这种美文似乎在英语国民里最为发达，如中国所熟知的爱迭生，兰姆，欧文，霍桑诸人都做有很好的美文，近时高尔? There is a so-called paper in foreign literature, which can be divided into two categories. What is criticized is academic. What is described in the second book is artistic, also known as the “America,” where one can distinguish between narrative and sensation. However, many of them are mixed. This kind of American essay seems to be the most developed in the English-speaking people. As Isaacson is well known in China, Lamb, Irving, and Hawthorne all have good essays.