The Mongols in Russia

THE MONGOLS. A HISTORY.

By JEREMIAH CURTIN.

WITH A FOREWORD BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $3.00 net.

President Roosevelt in his “Foreword” says:

“The death of Jeremiah Curtin robbed America of one of her two or three foremost scholars. His extraordinary translations of the Polish novels of Sienkiewicz would have been enough to establish a first-class reputation for any man. But nothing that he did was more important than his studies of the rise of the mighty Mongol Empire and its decadence. In this particular field no other American or English scholar has ever approached him.”

OPINIONS

This book the world actually needed.—Westminster, Philadelphia.

A noteworthy contribution to American scholarship.—Review of Reviews.

A triumph of condensation and a very vivid narrative.—Boston Advertiser.

Written by a great scholar, one who knew Asiatic history as have few.—The Outlook, New York.

Many will regard this as the most noteworthy contribution to the literature of 1907.—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.

Mr. Curtin had no equal among English writers in his knowledge of the Mongol people.—The Congregationalist, Boston.

Mr. Curtin’s work gives in detail a most interesting and graphic account of the rise of Mongol influence in Asia and its westward spread. It contains many extracts from almost inaccessible authorities, and is a valuable contribution not only to history, but to ethnology.—Chicago Tribune.

The best single work on the subject yet published in English. Mr. Curtin’s chapters are vivid with brilliant description, and his power to paint in words is shown on many pages.… The book has a portrait, map, and good index, and is of inestimable value to the serious student.—Literary Digest.

LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers, BOSTON. [484]

MYTHS AND FOLK-LORE OF IRELAND.

BY JEREMIAH CURTIN.

With Etched Frontispiece. Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net.

The myth tales included in this volume were collected personally by the author, during 1887, in the west of Ireland,—in Kerry, Galway, and Donegal,—and taken down from the mouths of men who, with one or two exceptions, spoke only Gaelic, or but little English and that imperfectly. To this is due the fact that the stories are so well preserved, and not blurred and rendered indistinct, as is the case in places where the ancient Gaelic language, in which they were originally told, has perished.

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Mr. Curtin is the first to give to the public a volume of Irish popular tales which may justly be ranked with the best recent collections of popular tales in Germany, France, and Italy.… A delightful book alike for the scholar and general reader.—The Nation.

I have now read the whole of your “Irish Myths,” with perhaps one exception, and I compliment you most heartily upon the book. It is wonderfully fresh and suggestive, and in the mere capacity of a lot of fairy stories it ought to have a big circulation. Fin MacCool and the Fenians of Erin were great fellows anyway.—Charles A. Dana.

A contribution to the literature of the subject which is of the very first importance.… The stories are wonderfully fresh and distinct, and they are pervaded with a most rare and delicious humor.—The Beacon.

A more thoroughly delightful book has not come to hand for many a long day. Its tales have, in the first place, the genuine ring of original myths, the true ring of folk-lore, that indescribable naïveté which is as charming as it is inimitable.—Boston Courier.

No more interesting or more valuable contribution to the literature of this subject has ever been made.… The tales in this book are very charming. They cover a wide range, and to adults as well as to children of tender years they are simply fascinating.—Quebec Chronicle.

The work of the collector is not only performed faithfully, but with such intelligence that the stories have a value in literature worthy of being added to the Norse sagas and other tales of wild adventure and myths.—Boston Journal. [485]

HERO-TALES OF IRELAND.

BY JEREMIAH CURTIN.

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The tales included in this volume, though told in modern speech, relate to heroes and adventures of an ancient time, and contain elements peculiar to early ages of story-telling. The chief actors in most of them are represented as men; but we may be quite sure that these men are substitutes for heroes who were not considered human when the stories were told to Celtic audiences originally.—Introduction.

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These are thrilling hero-tales. No extract can do the stories justice. Any one taking up the volume will not be likely to lay it down without reading it.—The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.

Mr. Jeremiah Curtin, whose translation of the novels of the great Polish novelist, Sienkiewicz, introduced him to English readers, has shown equally admirable skill in rendering into English many ancient hero-tales of Ireland. The stories are marvels of exaggeration, and have a genuine Irish flavor. Champions, giants, fairies, and witches work their wonders and spells in a fascinating way.—The Outlook.

The people of this country ought to be grateful to that accomplished American scholar, Jeremiah Curtin, for the translations from varied and quite dissimilar foreign languages which he has added to our literature. His version of the wonderful novels of Sienkiewicz opens up to us a most interesting department of history, of which English-speaking people have hitherto been profoundly ignorant; and his latest publication, “Hero-Tales of Ireland,” is perhaps quite as valuable, with the added charm of a wild, delightful, primeval Celtic imagination.—The New York Sun. [486]

MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES OF THE RUSSIANS, WESTERN SLAVS, AND MAGYARS.

BY JEREMIAH CURTIN.

Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net.

CONTENTS.

RUSSIAN MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES.

CZECH MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES.

MAGYAR MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES.

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A volume as fascinating as any fairy book that was ever published; and simply for their wealth of imagination and rare simplicity of diction these stories will be widely read.… The volume, taken for all in all, is a distinct addition to literature, a priceless boon to scientific investigation, and a credit to American scholarship. The educated people of this country will do well to buy and read this truly remarkable book.—The Beacon.

Will be welcome to many readers, not only to students, but to children, who find inexhaustible interest in just such folk-tales.—Public Opinion.

At once thoroughly admirable and thoroughly delightful, … there is a surprising freshness and individuality of flavor in them.—Boston Courier.

Stories of unique character, full of grotesque and marvelous adventures, told with a beautiful simplicity of style which speaks well for the faithfulness of the translator’s work.—Milwaukee Sentinel.

Prof. Jeremiah Curtin gives us a large collection of these tales, many of which are very interesting, many beautiful, and all strikingly curious.—Boston Advertiser.

Mr. Curtin spares no pains in his researches into the early literature of the chief primitive races of the earth. Less than a year has passed since the publication of his admirable work on “Irish Folk-Lore.” The present volume adds his discoveries among three other important nations.—The Dial. [487]

CREATION MYTHS OF PRIMITIVE AMERICA.

In Relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind

By JEREMIAH CURTIN

8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.50 net.

An important work on the unwritten mental productions of primitive America, containing twenty long myths, all of remarkable beauty and exceptional value, taken down word for word by Mr. Curtin from Indians who knew no language save their own, and the chief of whom had not seen a white man until years of maturity.

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A specially valuable contribution to folk-lore.—London Spectator.

Nothing in literature is quite so perennial, so fascinating, so full of delight as folk-lore, and Mr. Jeremiah Curtin has given a volume of mythical tales, many of remarkable beauty, and all curious.—Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia.

No writer of our century is better equipped to write such a book and make it historical, instructive, and interesting than Mr. Curtin.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.

A permanent and valuable addition to the rapidly increasing literature of folk-lore.—Chicago Tribune.

An intensely interesting and certainly a most valuable work. Mr. Curtin has brought to bear upon his subject great natural ability, the force of long experience, large attainments, and a very attractive style. His enthusiasm is admirable.—Independent, New York.

No one man has done more to preserve the folk-lore of different countries than Mr. Jeremiah Curtin.—Boston Herald.

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