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Illustrations of Ancient Buildings in Kashmir. By H. H. Cole,

Lieutenant, R.E. (W. H. Allen and Co.) —This handsome volume is the first of a series with which it is intended to illustrate the Archwological Survey of India now being carried on by the Government. The Kashmir temples are interesting structures, varying in date, as is conjecturally determined by the character of the architecture, which, as usual, became continually more ornate, from the end of the third century B.C. to the end of the tenth of our era. Tho illustrations consist of photographs printed in carbon from the original negatives, and therefore permanent ; and of lithographed plates, giving plans, elevations, details of ornamen- tation, &a.