中土小说出于稗官，意在善述故事；西洋小说起于神话，亦意在善述故事；这时候小说历史本没有什么区别。但西洋近代小说受了实证科学的方法之影响，变为专重善写人情一方面，善述故事一方面遂完全划归历史范围，这也是学术界底分工作用。 Middle-earth novels out of barbarian officials, intended to be good at story; Western novel plays in the myth, but also intended to tell the story; this time there is no difference between the history of the novel. However, modern Western novels are influenced by the methods of empirical science and become specialists and writers. On the one hand, being good at storytelling fully falls within the scope of history, and this is also the bottom line for academic work.