The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-11
Book Reviews and Notes Of the Publishers.

last till Heaven puts the diadem of victory and power on the head of him whom it chooses and puts the rage of misery and want on him whom it desires to wear them"
 It proved subsequently unfortunate for Chong-hei that he received this delivery with raging and contempt
 After China came India and Persia, Jinghis left a desert behind him in Persia. Tn those lands which Jinghis Khan runed,' says an old historian, mot one in a thousand is left of the people. Where a hundred thousand had lived before his invasion there are now scarce one hundred, And the same could have been written of Russia and Hungary and Poland
 No wonder Temudjn, as he was called at first, raised his great stand- ard of nine white tails and took the title of Jinghis meaning Mighty, to distinguish him from all other Khans.
 Jnghis Khan died in 1927. at the age of 66 years, having accomplished more in the way of conquest than any other man whose life is in the records of the race. He had. as we have not ed. swept Asia from the Yellow Sea to the Caspian, from the Arctic Circle to India. Northern and, Central China were now under his sway The Per- sian dynasty had been destroyed Eastern Europe 'trembled under the hoof beats of his hordes. From domin- ion over settlement of horse herders, living in sod-covered huts. he had gained the lordship over 4,S00,00 square miles of the earths surface, inhabited by hundreds of millions. in- cluding the yealthest and most civil ized of the peoples then living on the earth. Great conqueror great slaugh- Manhattan Island and was ready 10 en- terer of men he was. He left sons who were mghty warriors, but he was the greatest of all his successors. And his grave no man can find because soon after the burial all trees in the forest had grown equal in size and appear ance' to that majestic tree under which he chose to rest-the tree that had pleased him very greatly in his | lifetime.'
 | The story of the forced nuptials of his mother, Hoelun, who was already the wife of Yeki, when Yessugai saw her and captured her for his owl,, is 1 interesting
 When Ieki saw tine three brothers coming he grew frightened, struck l's Eofse. and rode back to ,ls cart where h's wife wos Those men are very hostile said the woman. Hurry off or they will kill thee. If thou sur virc lind wife such as I ;uh if thou r"member me call her by my name. Then sine drew off s;r shift and gave it to Yer. He took Il, mo lated quick ly and, seeing Yeseuga. approach ne with ais brothers. galoped up the r:vcr
 The trree men rushed after YelJ, but did (; overtake him. SC they red l back tu the woman whose nano was Hnclun She was weer.rg Her screams when tho! seized her raised waves ,n tn" river, and shook trees in the val 1 ley" /"
 MT. Curtin, in his dedication of the book to President Roosevelt, rr,f.tes how he went to the White ITnuse in 1881 to see President Harrison on be- half of tribe of oppressed and rob- bed Indians and was RindS received. Curtin was accompenieo on this oc- casion by Governor Greenhalgc, of Massachusetts, classrnate of his. who was then a congressman. On their wav out--but let Curtin himself tell what happened:
 All at once in the large room below us saw young man, alert in his bearing and perfectly confident. He gazed at the ceiling and walls of the room. and was thoroughly occupied. There was no one else in the auart- ment. l asked Greenhalge to i1ok at him. That man, said I, looks pre-. cisely as if he had examined this building, andN finding it suitable, has made up his mind to inhabit it.
 He is a living picture of that pur- pose, replied Greenhalge But do you not know him? That is Theodore Roosevelt, chairman of the Civil Ser vice commission. I must make you acquainted But first listen to a prophecy: That man down there who wants this house will get it. He will live here as President"
 MT. Curtin's book is worthy con tribution to literature and Is an elab- crate history founded on such Asiatlc sources as exist It is moreover. H. luminated by examination of all ref
 
 erences to be found in the writings of european travellers. No work nearly so full in detail exists in English. and no real student of Asiatc matters or of history in general can afford to neglect it.