汪东向以词名家,但其阅历丰富,辞采华茂,笔记创作亦颇为可观。留下的四部笔记中,《窗鸡话剩》撰于《民报》时期,内容多涉华夷之辩、满汉之争,有明显的政治意图;《铅椠余录》是作者在编辑《华国月刊》时所裒辑,主要摭采时人诗文,评骘优劣,性质可归为诗话之属;《寄庵随笔》与《寄庵谈荟》分别连载于《新闻报》副刊与《大报》,掇拾逸闻旧事,杂谈风俗世情,考订典章名物,更具传统笔记的色彩。
Wang Dong is known tor his poems, but he had colortul experiences, and his poems are full ot speech of figures, so his creatures are really wonderful. The four notes he left, such as Chicken Talk by Win-dow made in the period when People's Newspaper started. It concerns the debates between Chinese and foreign countries and the war between Man Dynasty and Han Dynasty, which is filled with political purposes. MyWriting Records is a work he created when he edited China Monthly, it includes people and events that happened in that time, so it belongs to poems, Ji An's Essay and Ji An's Talk started on The News and The BigNews. They mostly records the old things, some custos and some famous articles, which makes it more traditional.