Non-Fiction
THE FOREST GIANTAdrien Le Corbeau; translated by T. E. Lawrence Doubleday, Doran ($2). This little French classic, a philosophic monody on the 7,000-year life of a California sequoia, was translated in 1924 by the late great T. E. Lawrence, calling himself J. H. Ross, the name under which he first enlisted in the Royal Air Force. Illustrated by woodcuts.
ODYSSEY OF THE ISLANDSCarl N. TaylorScribner ($3). Description of a journey through rarely-traveled parts of the Philippines, illustrated by photographs. Author Taylor was killed in New Mexico last February by his house boy,...