这几天在看一点有关《儒林外史》的材料,却想到另外的事情上去了。想到的是:点句的难。鲁迅就用这个题目写过文章,收在《花边文学》里。说是用标点古文来试验学生,闹出许多笑话,甚至还有学者连极平常的句子也点出破句的。这是真的。这一回我就遇到了断句欠妥之处。鲁迅的《中国小说史略》第二十三篇“清之讽刺小说”就是讲《儒林外史》的。其中从小说第十四回引了一段,是写马二先生游西湖的: A few days to look at the material about the “Scholars”, but thought of another thing up. Think of is: difficult to point sentence. Lu Xun wrote an article on this topic, received in the “lace literature”. That is punctuated by ancient Chinese to test students, making a lot of jokes, and even scholars often even point out the sentence. This is real. This time I met the fault of the sentence. Lu Xun’s “A Brief History of Chinese Fiction” twenty-third “satirical novels” is about “Scholars”. One of the fourteenth back from the novel citing a period, is to write Mr. Ma Er West Lake: