WIND OVER WISCONSINAugust DerlethScribner ($2.50). Volume Two in 29-year-old Author Derleth's conscientious project of a Wisconsin historical novel, this is a poetic, placid story of Wisconsin during the Black Hawk War, centring on an idealistic French fur trader.
Non-Fiction
JOHN OF THE MOUNTAINSEdited by Linnie Marsh WolfeHoughton Mifflin ($3.75). From the unpublished, pencil-smudged journals of the famous U. S. naturalist, John Muir, a fragmentary, 440-page selection which rightfully belongs with his seven published journals. Readers may deplore the book's jumbled effect, but will agree that it succeeds with rare effect in communicating the freshness...