• "Started at 8.45 after a very bad chola hazri
of rotten egg and our own cocoa" is a rather typical extract from Lt.-Col. Sir Reginald Rankin's A Tour through the Himalayas (Lane, 12s. (id.), which is a record of Sport and travel in Central Kashmir in the year 1898. Much of the book is rather heavy in the hand and at times somewhat exigently commonplace, but there are some lively accounts of successful stalks after ibex, and once the -author bagged a snow- leopard which measured eight feet ten and a half inches long and turned out to be a world's record. There is plenty that is interesting in the book, but it would have been well to have pruned- it of certain sententious reflections -on thinks in general-and of other details which were, no doubt, read with intense interest by the author's family circle or friends, but which fall flat upon an alien public.
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