【前记】在父亲赵家璧收藏的书信中,有范用先生的不少亲笔信。在这些信中我读到了范用先生对一个比自己年长十五六岁的老编辑的尊重与敬佩。他们两人虽然成长的时代不同,所受的教育不同,但他们两人都是从少年时期,就对从文字到书籍的过程产生浓厚的兴趣,认为书籍是自己的朋友, [Note] In his father Zhao Jiabi collection of letters, there are a lot of autobiographical letter with Mr. Fan. In these letters, I read Mr. Fan’s respect and admiration for an older editor who was 15 or older. Although both of them grew up in different times and had different education, both of them developed a keen interest in the process of writing to books from their youth. They regarded books as their own friends,