过去 ,人们习惯于把南社称做诗的文学社团 ,而不知道它还有丰富的小说内涵。南社的小说作家主要有五位代表。他们的小说成就代表了民国初年中国小说界的最高成就。可以说民国初期的小说 ,就是南社的小说。南社的小说作家 ,有的后来成为了鸳鸯蝴蝶派小说作家 ,这是很自然的事。原因是多方面的 ,其中之一 ,就是鸳鸯蝴蝶派作家 ,并不像有些人想象得那么坏。他们在小说创作上 ,做过一些努力、取得一些成绩、写出了一些好作品。现在应当给他们做出实事求是的评价 ,肯定他们在小说史上的地位 In the past, people used to refer to the society as a literary society of poetry without knowing that it still has a rich content of novels. Nanshe novels writer has five representatives. Their novel achievement represents the highest achievement of the Chinese novel community in the early Republican China. It can be said that the early Republican novels were the novels of Nanshe. Nanshe’s novelist, some later became a butterfly novelist writer, this is a very natural thing. There are many reasons for this. One of them is that the Mandarin Duck Butterfly School writer is not as bad as some people think. In their novels, they made some efforts, achieved some achievements and wrote some good works. Now we should give them a realistic evaluation, affirming their position in the history of novels