Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-23 | Page 3 | In the Realm of Literature

J. J IN THE tag REALM OF lITERA TURE I. I VON HOWARD J Jay that any one man is i. the ay Y lit Tt ure fil in history is i. to lay for an argument that ci 1 from noW until the year io o and d not be decided but to tot lEt t the conquests waged aged by were never again or be aled is another thing HIs Hs tei the deeds deed of Alexander Napoleon and others other over 7 pal pages and pass pall up rT ne with a few scant para Now the story of the last at conquerors is presented terrOr and glory by Harold hose Tamerlane the Earth h. h has just been published by byde d de It is more thrilling than Idest tory story of fiction this ac of Timur Lord of TaMary nide t it Napoleon and Bis Bi fade Into something akin to Napoleon died a aland arand rand land Bismarck triumphed in leadership of a single created an em nd was successful in every ign he undertook and he died lLarch toward Cathay the strong enough to oppose I. I lm ur r. r ci ho In the beginning ot of no mOre moie than some a ad d land In Central Asia aya tn In his foreword One tb other he overcame the cn Ore than halt half the world re down cities and rebuilt S n tM the way he wished Over the he caravan II of two con con- passed Under his hands he wealth of at empires and Ih fancied Out ot of he made pleas pleas- p tn Uces-ln Uces a a. month More any other human bea be- be a he attempted to grasp liin cherne of Things entire n nhen hen n mold It nearer to deal Moscow l on the Black sea 11 S and across ucross to Delhi In Rod nd t to Z on in the edge ot of nl desert Timur Timul the Amir l d lie He left behind un C p pyramids ot of human II behe the an empire smoothly and efficient efficient- and costly pale pal pal- e schools and col- col dealt justice to those who and death to those p se 1 him Being J elther I ot a a. king like Alexander or of a a. chieftain like Khan founded his ISO 50 years ago 1 ir s career Timur followed rules never to involve ii country in the maneuver l my y campaign never to allow Ito to be put upon d always alway to attack as horses can trave better bUer he said once to be right place with ten men hunt bint with ten thousand when failure and defeat r had those qualities which kept his armies standard and which every battle with the firmly fixed Timur world paying him ver took the title of emlie em em- lie H. was still Amir Timur Lord 1 Timur the Splendid I empire never had a name Timur the Limper always 01 bittle living most of his 1 saddle tall commanding r shouldered and sinewy man capable of leading ng an fa hundred d ethul thousand 3 1 three e eIs days lt the last of tho great or who hall had the daring and andI I Is an empire that fell feU r hl his death because s strong enough to Ui ot of both oth military I Only death C 1 rom brt through il ot of China hina to tear down downS S 9 chead its men and rio 1 for tor the AmiI died of oC winter leading n en along alon the great north tha thay They had taken coldest months at nd ho he had ord eld the he road again In were lifted and andl andI l I drums roared the regi- regi v drawn up un on the plain The lords of divisions f. f musicians cla CO for the theto u to the e Amir n It Shrilled and the C W hoed d tle tho thudding hoofs I I a salutation of the dead dIed at In obedi- obedi II the host hUllt marched ward th tho great north road Ii saddled was In I Ider Lufler der the 1 stand stand- I 0 One was ln In the waddle saddle II wooden walls wails of the and officers officer of all toed tood In the snow now Within r sat the great empress u h Khanum his hi consort 1 by her Women Lying out out- his cushions his hi lined y n the white mass of his hi Su gave his final t the e high hillh amir Keep your valiantly i in hand Keep ye for In dl I I I order there is i. ruin Do not turn aside from the march to Cathay Then he appointed his hi grandson Pir Muhammad as his successor and one after another the took oath to carry out his his his' will Some of the were weeping and the th low wailing of the women could be heard Into the chamber advanced the servants of the church God is One There j. j no God except the One Thus ended the life of Timur and with it his hi mighty empire but even today the aged mullah mulish who is likely to be found at the cenotaph in and where Tamerlane's Tamerlane body lies says say in answer to tourists tourists' quel- quel tiona that verily ho he wa wu TH THE E Lord And in writing of Tamerlane Tamer lane Lamb has told a story that quickens the blood and fires the imagination