A selection of 43 pieces of English biographies originally published on the special column of the English weekly newspaper The China Critic, with Jiang Feng's fine translations; Short sketches of impressions about celebrities like Wu Mi, Hu Shih, Hsu Tsemo, Chou Tso-jen, Ku Hung-ming, Fung Yu-lang, etc., the judgment piquant and unique, the style lively and humorous.

收录原载于《中国评论周报》专栏的43 篇人物英文小传及翻译家江枫的优美译文；以素描的方式、"春秋"的笔法写下对吴宓、胡适、徐志摩、周作人、辜鸿铭、冯友兰、丁文江、吴经熊、冯玉祥等名人的印象记，褒贬辛辣别致，格调活泼，修辞风趣。