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All volumes are complete, unabridged, and contain the original illustra- 
tions. The only difference appears. in two volumes: “Life Histories of 
North American Diving Birds” and “Life Histories of North American 
Gulls and Terns,” where black-and-white reproductions are used instead 
of the colored plates of eggs seen in the first edition. The Dover reprints 
are of the highest quality, and as useful as the originals. 
The following volumes have appeared, and others are to follow: 
Life Histories of North American Diving Birds. 1919 (1963). pp. 1-239, 
ls. 1-55. $2.75. 
Life Histories of North American Gulls and Terns. 1921 (1963). pp. 1-337, 
pls. 1-93. $2.75. 
Life Histories of North American Wild Fowl (part 1), 1923 (1963). Pp. 
1-244, pls. 1-46. (part 2), 1925 (1963). Pp. 1-314, pls. 1-60. 2 volumes. $4.70. 
Life Histories of North American Marsh Birds. 1927 (1963). Pp. 1-392, pls. 
1-98. $2.75. ; 
Life Histories of North American Shore Birds (part 1), 1927 (1963). Pp. 
1-420, pls. 1-55 (part 2). 1929 (1963), Pp. 1-412, pls. 1-66. 2 volumes. $4.70. 
Life Histories of North American Gallinaceous Birds. 1932 (1963). Pp. 1-490, 
pis. 1-93.°$2.75. 
Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey. (part 1), 1937 (1963). Pp. 
1-409, pls. 1-102; (part 2), 1938 (1963). Pp. 1-482, pls. 1-92. 2 volumes. $4.70. 
These monumental works are a must for any ornithologist, naturalist, 
or bird-watcher. 
Harlan Dean Walley, 717 North Elm St., Sandwich, Illinois 
GOD’S OWN JUNKYARD, by Peter Blake. New York: Holt, Rinehart 
and Winston, 1963. Hard and soft cover editions, 142 pages with over 
100 pages of photographs. $2.95 and- $5.00. 
The subtitle of this book, written by the Managing Editor of Architec- 
tural Forum, is: “The planned deterioration of the American landscape.” 
The author illustrates his thesis not only by biting editorial criticism, but 
also most effectively by photographs: page after page of them, depicting 
the hideous mess of gas stations, neon signs, garish motels, billboards, and 
all the rest that now constitute so much of the American landscape. 
The book is divided into several sections: Townscape. Landscape, 
Roadscape, Carscape and Skyscape. In each section Mr. Blake shows both 
verbally and with photographs the gross bad taste prevelant in America 
today, made possible by the general attitude that anything which ad- 
vances the automobile or makes money is permissible. He presents many 
interesting (and disgusting) facts: the tearing down of a Frank Lloyd 
Wright building to construct a parking lot; the 8.4 billion square feet of 
American land now occupied by the automobile and its paths; the sky- 
scape laced by power lines and telegraph poles which the author says even 
under-developed nations don’t permit (they require underground wiring); 
the billboard industry, a $200,000,000-a-year business with enormous lob- 
bying powers; the housing developments engulfing acres and acres of land 
each year. So it goes, page after page, showing in black and white the 
jungle of ugliness we all see every day of our lives. 
Mr. Blake places the blame for this wrecking of the American landscape 
not only on the hucksters. politicians, and interest groups, but also on 
the intellectual elite — the critics, artists, and educated people who dis- 
cuss and deplore ugliness, but who up to now have done nothing to coun- 
teract and abolish it. 
Mrs. Sean K. McCurley, 2139 Illinois Road, Northbrook, Ill. 
