The Happy Valley : Sketches of Kashmir and the Kashmirians.
By W. Wakefield, M.D. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Kashmir is not so familiar to English readers but that they will welcome Dr. Wakefield's volume. It contains nothing very striking or new ; but it is pleasantly written, and will serve to bring the country and its inhabitants fairly well before many who are never likely to see it with their eyes. He describes the scenery, gives us a not flattering estimate of the people's character, and a more favourable judgment about their looks, gives not a few useful hints about things to be seen and the means of getting at them,—in short, writes just such a book as might bo expected from an intelligent observer who has not had any very great opportunity of making himself acquainted with the country, but has intelligently used what opportunity he has had.
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