**** The trip from New York to Jummoo is about as long in point of time as to California twenty-five years ago. As many years hence the survivors of us may be getting up Thanksgiving or Christmas reunions at the old homestead of the Aryan family. It will never be a hackneyed spot. It stands too much on end. Steep mountains are never hackneyed: Cook's Personally Conducted will never permeate Kashmir. **** Thus wrote Edward C. Bruce in SEPTEMBER, 1878. His write-up on ''MODERN KASHMIR'' was published in the LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE, with several nice illustrations. Online at - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22250/22250-h/22250-h.htm ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India