Forests and Seapower: The Timber Problem of the Royal Navy, 1652–1862. By Robert G. Albion. (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1965. Copyright 1926 by the president and fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted 1965 with permission in an unaltered and unabridged edition. 485. pp. Notes, talbes, bibliography, index. $11.00.)