ORPHANS OF THE PACIFIC: THE PHILIPPINES Florence Horn Reynal & Hitchcock ($3.50).
Florence Horn is a small, sapient Connecticut Yankee quietly outraged by the U. S. citizen who places Manila in Cuba. Late in 1939 she took her journalistic acumen and a social conscience to the little-known Commonwealth of the Philippines, within three months turned the polyglot, 7,091-isle archipelago inside out gathering research for a FORTUNE article. Orphans of the Pacific is the byproduct.
"The U. S. A.," says Authoress Horn, "doesn't know what to do about the Philippines and never has, from...