PLOMOM CR TRIE VANS Malis 
THE LIVING WORLD OF 
AUDUBON 
By Roland C. Clement 
Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1974 
272 p., 64 color reproduction of 
Audubon paintings, 196 color 
photographs, $25.00 
This is a beautiful “cocktail 
table” book which has little to 
offer beyond nicely reproduced 
photographs of 64 bird species. The 
format consists of an Audubon 
reproduction and a brief text with 
references from Audubon’s writing 
followed by two to five photo- 
graphs of the species. These photo- 
graphs include one or two pictures 
of nests. The reproductions of 
Audubon prints and the photo- 
graphs, the work of a good cross 
section of photographers, are of 
good quality and sharp detail. The 
book is a fine one for what it is — 
something to casually browse 
through. If this is what one is 
looking for, it is a good value. 
—Peter C. Petersen 
BIRDS OF WESTERN 
NORTH AMERICA 
By Laurence C. Binford 
Paintings by Kenneth L. Carlson 
Macmillan Publishing Co., 
New York, 1974, 223 p., 50 color 
plates, $25.00 
Macmillan introduces us to a 
bird artist of considerable talent, 
Kenneth L. Carlson. He has been 
exhibited in galleries and done 
covers for Naturalist and Western 
Outdoors but is certainly not 
known in birding circles. The 
quality of the color reproduction 
is not up to the standard of recent 
European books but is still good. 
The text provides some basic life 
history information on the species 
illustrated and an_ introduction 
presenting some basic facts on 
birding as a hobby. The book cov- 
ers only nonpasserines so the door 
is open for a second volume. 
—Peter C. Petersen 
BREEDING OURSELVES TO 
DEATH 
By Lawrence Lader; Foreword by 
Dr. Paul R. Ehrlich 
Ballantine Books, New York 
115 Pages, $4.95 
Dr. Paul Ehrlich is famous for his 
book, the POPULATION BOMB, 
and writes of Lader’s volume that 
it is a historical record of the Hugh 
Moore Fund. It is a needed testi- 
monial to the life and work of Mr. 
Hugh Moore, in arousing the na- 
tion and the world to the menace 
of uncontrolled human increase on 
a finite planet. Through pamphlets 
circulated in the millions to giant 
newspaper ads which reached even 
more millions of persons, Hugh 
Moore was able to use business 
techniques to help focus on an in- 
ternational problem, the dimen- 
sions of which, because of the 
energy crisis, space and food, we 
are only beginning to realize. It is 
a look backwards, upon the atti- 
tudes of world leaders and plain 
citizens. It is incredible that they 
could have been so blind and so 
unwilling to face the population 
issue. Some still are. 
Hugh Moore was an industrialist, 
a philanthropist, an organizer. He 
was a persuader who enlisted the 
aid of other prominent leaders in 
business to take a firm stand. He 
persuaded Presidents Kennedy, 
Johnson and Nixon to face up to 
the population problem in some 
measure, and even Eisenhower 
later confessed that his posture 
was wrong while he was in the 
White House. A finite planet can- 
not continue to increase at the rate 
of one million each week, without 
disaster. Without Hugh Moore, 
there could not have possibly been 
a UN Commission meeting at Bu- 
charest last August to discuss the 
world’s foremost problem in what 
was described as World Population 
Year. —Raymond Mostek 
