Mr. SHIMADA said sadly that literature today had been written for the public taste, the revered old Mr. FUKUZAWA sighed that no person of letters now had been able to produce new ideas and thoughts, and other people criticized that literature today was based on mammonism.
今日の文学は世の好尚のために書く文学と云つて島田氏は嘆かれ、今の文学者に一機軸を出すものが無いとて福沢翁は呟かれ、其他の人は今日の文学を拝金主義の下に立つものと評されました。