Suleiman the Magnificent
by .Doubleday, $5.00.
Harold Lamb has a genius for making history enticing without its ceasing to be history, and Suleiman is a subject made to order for his romantic temperament. For here is the story of a conqueror of “gigantic stature” who took Turkish power to the walls of Vienna, and who, at heart, had no great appetite for conquest; a progressive ruler whose reforms weakened the preponderance of the military in Turkey, and who encouraged the arts, learning, and religious tolerance; a man immortalized as “the magnificent,” who was silent, austere, enigmatic. Lamb’s book is a fascinating and reflective study of a great personality, his empire and his epoch.