在读者中,我未见得是唯一的一再盘算能不能去掉温特斯先生的短处而保留他的长处的人。如果能做到的话,那就太好了。在现代批评里,象这样明白而且毫不姑息地确定亨利·詹姆士的《大使》(在“现代文学批评家的问题”一文中)和《小鹰》(在论霍布金斯一文中)的地位的,是多么少见啊。我们觉得 Among readers, I have not seen the only one who has repeatedly calculated whether or not to remove Mr. Winters’ shortcomings while preserving his strengths. If you can do that, that’s great. In modern criticisms, it is as clear and without palliative determination of Henry James’ “ambassadors” (in the “issue of modern literary criticism”) and “Kitty Hawk” (in the text of Hobkins How rare is it? we think