The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-11

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 An historical narrative of the cam paigns and conQuests of warriors in northeast Asia, China, Russia. Arabia and Persia. The author of this vol ume is widely known as translator from the Polish of Sienkiewicz's nov els and his fame as scholar was we'll won. He was one of the most notable of linguists and deep student of Eastern history. Others of his books are, Myths and Folk-TaIes of the Russians" and Western Slavs and Magyars. The last years of his life were devoted to the volume before us-the crowning work of his career. In 1t he describes the campaigns and conquests of Temudjin. Jinghis Khan, and his lieutenants and successors in northeast Asia, China, Russia. Arabia and Persia, the narrative being brought down to the early part of the Fifteenth Century when the Mongols. after reigning in China, were finally expelled from the country by the founders of the Ming dynasty
 MT Curtin besides being one of the most remarkable linguists in, the world, was great traveller and an in veterate student of history. He was also a most indefatigable worker and his massive history of The Mon gols," is to be followed next year by Russia Under the Mongols." Presi- dent Roosevelt, who contributes a brief introduction to the present vol ume. declares that no other American or English scholar ever approached Curtin in his grasp and treatment of the rses and decadence of the mighty Mongol empire. After paying tribute to the scholarship of the man who introduced Quo Vadis" and the other Sienkiewicz romances to English read CTS, the President exclaims at the gen eral ignorance regarding the Mongols, shown in such comically absurd re- marks as the one not infrequently made at the time of the Japanese Russian war. that for the first time since Salamis, Asia had conquered Flu rope. "As a matter of fact" says MT. Roosevelt, "the recent military SUI premacy of the white or European races is a matter only of some three centuries. For the four preceding centuries-that is. from the beginning ofsthe thirteenth to the seventeenth the Mongol and Turkish armies gener- ally had the upper hand in any con f1ct with European foes, appearing in Europe always as invaders and often as conquerors; while no ruler of Flu rope of their days had to his credit such mighty feats of arms, such wide conquests, as Genghis Khan, as Tim our the Limper, as Bajazet, Selm and Amurath, as Baber and Akbar."
 Georghis Khan, on Jinghis as Mir. Curtin calls him, was a great leader and warrior, a sort of Asiatic Napole- on, as all readers of history must ad- init He was great destroyer of men, and literally waded through blood, es- pecially in the horrible massacres with which he followed up his conquests. In China and Tangut alone, between 1211 and 1923, he slaughtered more than 1s,500,000 human beings Ac- cording to mythological history this famous Khan traced his ancestry far back to blue wolf and gray doe
 Jinghis Khan began his training as . man-slayer at the early age of thir- teen. Circumstances prompted him first to eXterminate portion of the immediate family, consisting chiefly of Brothers, half-brothers and cousins. Beginning his career of conquest with a few huts on the Kerulum he drew in tribes after tribe, country after country, till at his death he was mas ter of more territory than had ever been ruled by one sovereign. As a Chinese historian put it, he destroyed empires 'as man plucks out herbs by the roots" In his operations in later years, he conquered most of Southern Asia and swept over large path in Russia with his Mongol ,hordes
 Along in 1910 the naughty Chong- bel, Emperor of Chins, sent an en- voy to the Khan demanding vassal- age and tNat he receive the announce ment while kneeing Jinghis spat to. ward the south, took a long ride on
 sent this message to tbi Golden Khan;
 
 Knowledge that we, by Heavens fa- vor, have been chosen from among all the Mongols to hold the reins of empire and of guidance The fame of our conquering host has gone forth and is spreading We are planting our banners over all the earth's surface. and soon every. people and all nations will submit without delay or .hesita- tion to our prosperous direction and share in it's many benefactions. But should any rise and resist their houses, goods, properly and depend ents will be ruined without mercy.
 Praise and honor to High Heaven our dominion is so well ordered that we can visit China. With us will go instruments of every sort and crush Ing weapons. With us will march an army which is like a roaring ocean We can meet enmity or friendshir with the same tranquil feeling. If the Golden Khan in wisdom selects the way of friendship and concord. and meets us in congress, we will secure to him the management of China in proper form and strong possession. Ii he cannot come himself let him send his honored sons to us as bos+a ge with treasures. But should he resist which Heaven forbid. we must wait fo, warfare and for slaughter which u,i1