Brief Reports are accounts of completed research which do not warrant regular articles or the priority handling given to Rapid Communications; however, the same standards of scienttftc quality apply. (Addenda are included in Brief Reports )A .Brief Report may be no longer than 3~printed pages and must be accompanied by an abstractThe. same publication schedule as for regular articles is followed, and page proofs are sent to authors In higher orders of the Rayleigh-Schrodinger-type perturbation theory for nonlinear time-independent Hamiltonians care should be taken about the normalization in the wave-function-dependent perturbation operator. Low-order results, which have been presented earlier [P. R. Surjan and J. Angyan, Phys.Rev. A 28, 45 (1983)],remain valid; nevertheless, small corrections appear for higher orders (n~3). Explicit expressions are given for the energy correction in the generalized reaction-field theory in terms of nonlocal polarizabilities and reaction-field response functions.