Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist. The Observations of Henry is the collection of wonderful tales told by the waiter Henry to the author, mostly about people he has known and their ways to solve romantic problems. In Novel Notes Jerome and three of his pipe party bachelor friends: Jephson, Brown, and MacShaughnassy decided to stake their claim to literary fame by writing a book together. This book was created using print-on-demand technology.