■ Just Out: J. H. Plumb portrays the first Hanoverian kings in The First Four Georges (Little, Brown, $17.50). . . . Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese lieutenant who surrendered 29 years late, tells his story in No Surrender ($7.95, Kodansha; distributed by Harper). . . . Low-profile wealth is the theme of David Farren’s The Warburgs (Stein & Day, $8.95).
■ Looking toward February. Viking claims that Documents on Nazism 1919-1945, selected by Jeremy Noakes and Geoffrey Pridham, is the first comprehensive collection in English ($12.95). . . . He Gave Us Television is a life of David Sarnoff by Carl Dreher (Coward, $15). . . . Cajus Bekker studies The German Navy 1939-1945 for Dial ($12.50). . . . Ralph de Toledano’s latest is Hit and Run: The Rise—and Fall?—of Ralph Nader (Arlington, $7.95). . . . Grace and Favor is a big survey of England’s royalty by Jean Morris (McKay, $15). . . . Irene Mahoney’s Madame Catherine is a life of Catherine de Medici (Coward, $12.50). . . . Brendan Gill recalls four decades Here at the New Yorker (Random, $10). . . . Taylor Caldwell pokes through the trunk, emerges with a novel penned when she was twelve, The Romance of Atlantis. Jess Stearn is listed as coauthor (Morrow, $6.95). . . . New Updike novel, A Month of Sundays, is about a troubled minister (Knopf, $6.95). . . . For Holt, Richard Ollard portrays Samuel Pepys ($10). . . . The Promise of Joy completes Allen Drury’s series of political novels that began with Advise and Consent (Doubleday, $10). And the same house gives us James Cleugh reviewing 15 generations of The Medici ($9.95), while Our Friend, Jacques Maritain is recalled by his editor, Julie Kernan ($6.95), and Jonathan Daniel draws on his diaries for White House Witness: 1942-1945 ($8.95).
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