Notes By the Way.

Writer Henry James was born in 1843, and his centennial last year was duly celebrated in critical and commemorative plaques. The author wish he could record that this homage had "beautifully bloomed" in the set of handleable, durable, and inexpensive volumes the author hopes sometime to have on his shelves. Such an edition would take a good deal of paper but even so it would be necessary to cut down only a couple of trees in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, to obtain a sufficient supply. And a complete edition of a great American novelist is little enough to expect, almost thirty years after his death, from the publishers of the richest country in the world. To induce such an edition the author would even exploit the American weakness for quantity.