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o contains at least a dozen species which may not survive the century. 
waii, New Zealand and other islands also contain their share of en- 
ered species. 
Joseph Wood Krutch has provided a preface to the volume and the 
roduction written by James Fisher is vivid enough to encourage the 
man to stir himself to greater activity. 
It is a book which deserves to have great impact. The I.U.C.N. was 
med only in 1934. It is dedicated to perpetuate wild nature and natural 
ources all over the world. It is primarily concerned with man’s urban- 
tion of the earth, and his exploitation of the natural resources of the 
net. Through special arrangements with the publisher, the I.U.C.N., 
eives $5.00 for every book sold. Thus any reader who buys a copy for 
nself, or for a library or school, helps to support the work of the society 
ich has its main office in Switzerland. —Raymond Mostek 
A SPECIAL BOOK REVIEW 
EDITOR’S NOTE: We are indebted to a conservation-minded 
gentleman named Robert Cromie, book editor of the Chicago 
Tribune, for his permission (and the Tribune’s) to reprint a 
book review which appeared earlier this year in the newspaper. 
As a precise result of this review, Mr. Cromie told us, an un- 
identified Chicago lawyer has reported that a client of his was 
leaving money to the Audubon Society and to the Fund for 
Animals. 
by ROBERT CROMIE 
- favorite description of a modern-day tiger hunt can be found in a 
st engaging book, “A World Full of Animals,” by John Hunt (McKay, 
95). Hunt, who makes no bones about his distaste for those who are 
oleting the world’s supply of many animal species, tells how safaris are 
1 in India (tiger, gorged with food and puzzled by noise, is driven into 
e-fire range of daring hunter) and adds: 
‘Tt is easy to see that tiger-hunting today has all the spine-tingling, 
‘ve-wrenching drama of hunting white mice with a flame-thrower.” 
Sportsmen, as you may guess, probably won’t care much for this 
rticular Hunt, but the general reader, especially if he happens to like 
imals, will find the author’s knowledge and empathy irresistible. This is 
w Hunt begins the chapter on bears, “The Fat Man in a Fur Coat: 
“Of the million or so species of animals in the world, perhaps the bear 
; the best reason to know, and from way back, that people are no 
mned good.” 
And his observations on snakes and “The Creeping Things,” opens with 
S provocative sentence: 
“The Los Angeles Zoo got its first cobra from a Skid Row Jasken. *. 
Hunt, quite properly, is scornful of what is called hunting-for-sport. 
He writes: 
“Recently, a Californian scored the North American hunting grand 
m in 99 days by traveling 17,000 miles and spending $4,000. This ‘slam’ 
‘sisted of killing a specimen of each of the bighorn, Dall and Stone 
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