It has been recently suggested, either seriously or sarcastically, that there be compiled in one or two volumes a collection of "Notes and Comments on famous Works of History and Fiction in the Harvard University Library,"-the basis of the work to be the extremely brilliant and exquisite marginal notations that have in past years accumulated on the pages of the different works. Such a collection would doubtless meet with a great deal of favor-with as much favor, possibly, as the notes themselves in their present written form have met with. It is refreshing-to the reader (to him especially who aims at becoming a "full man," as Bacon puts it,) to find here and there the very brilliant remarks of a very bril-dull man; comments on the author's style, questions and expressed doubts on certain passages, very wonderful and skilful corrections, humorous passages explained, jokes and puns clarified, and bits of quite original humor-of the very best sort, of course. Indeed, it is to be regretted that more men do not practice this note-making. When men read, they should put down their thoughts, not on a blank sheet of paper-for that would be selfish-but on the pages of the books that they are reading. Then and then only may all the world read the briliant and witty notes, and profit by them. The possibilities, even at present, for the publication of the book proposed are very great, for the field is already very large. We wish, therefore, that the book might be published, for then the annotators, who doubtless expect some day to be great men, could see how brilliant their thoughts really are, and how near they themselves are to their longed for goal of greatness.