28 MARCH 1969, Page 26

James in the terrible tank

Sir: An erroneous note was added (I under- stand on information supplied by the publishers) to my review (21 February) of the republica- tion of Henry James's The _American Scene to the effect that it had never before been pub- lished in this country. It was, of course, pub- lished in 1907 by Chapman and Hall Ltd in London.