Hugh Walpole, that greatly gifted novelist, taught school after leaving Cambridge, and very sensibly began by writing about school-teaching.

• 我想推荐给新手朋友们这样一个测试：说实话，他们可以像沃波尔记录学校生活一样坦白如实记录自己的生活轨迹（不管是什么样的生活）吗? 如果可以，那他一定有写作的禀赋。