New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-06
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

mn 800 Charles scribners sons
DIR. Field has with all bis accustomed viVac''y
recorded in this volume the incidents OF MS
across the Peninsula of Sinai and through the WI
Sa,nass IN Gaza and Jerusalem. 1t was IN the
spripg of 1882 that he lett 0aIo iol
Snez and the Desert and there was as YET Htlie u
foreten the trouble which was soon to overwheiih
Eovpt. Arab Bey he met at dinner ana WAS I'LL
pressed by the Mosems sad gravity ana MS c"ur-
tesv Itisas a man of courage and capacity that
r. I,;.ld reoords him. There is in him." the doc
tor saws an element of religious fanaticism which
,oales him in dead earnest in anything he under
taus. Whatever education he has was obtained at
the University Of Ell Azhar in Cairo which is the
very centre and focus of Moslem fanatcism. One
VINO was fellow-student with him there tells me
that he was very religious and devout. Such man
is not q contemplate enemy. AS to his patriotism
neither dispute 1t nor doubt 1t, although am very
incredulous of patrlot ism among Moslems AM
Arabs-at least the word has TO be understood III q
necp,iar wav. Patriotism has ito typos as it APP
pears among different nations. The Bedawceh
are intensely patriotic, though their only country
il the desert Every sheik is jealous for his tribe
that is within Its territory he is not willing that
ANYBODY should have the privilege of robbing Dut
himself. In Mexico every man who makes revo
linton is "A patrot-that u.s. he believes honestly
no duubt that the good of the country requires that
he should be the head of the State and he gets up
revolution to carry out that patriotic purpose
Whether the patriotism OF the Egyptian leader mas
any higher character than this. may be doubted.
He seems to be compounded i'll about equal parts OF
three clements which are the master PASSIONS Oh
his nature hatred of foreigners religious fanati
cism, and personal ambition. These dlfieront im
pulses are SO mixed up in him that probably he
does not know one from the other. lie does not
sion to analyze his motives the Arab intellect is not
given to such fine distinctUns, and so he might
we'll think he acting from one when ne was
really acting from another. When he was seeking
his own ambition nc believed ne was seeking tne
good of his country, and even doing God service
for it must be that Allah was pleased that honor
should come to such a faithful servant. What
happy conjunction of circumstances. whereby he
was able at one and the same moment TO serve "od'
his country and hmselfw
DR.. Field tells the story of his traVel
through the desert with an agreeable viyidness and
SIMPLICITY interesting his reader as much IN the
uneyentful record of a sunny days journey as IN
the exciting relation of an attack by Bedaween.
His enjoyment of fresh scenes and pastures new
was keen and it has given a pleasant sparkle
TO his narrative. He figured during
the expedition as the Father of Backsheesh," and
in that character had many opportunities TO study
the Arab Of the desert. In intelligence, IN utter
tboughtlessness of the future, he declares,
the ARABS are CulluIcu' No NN'
old an Arab may be, how many suns
and moons have rolled over his head he re-
mains to the day of his death as truly child as
when he was born into the world. Not only does
he not know how to read and write, but he does not
know his own age; he cannot tell the day' or even
the year, of his birth. doubt if one OF our Bed
nwevn could tell his age within five, even If he
could within ten, years Indeed he has no Idea OF
time anv more than of distance. Ask him how lar
it is to such wady or such canping-ground
He will answer "A good way Indeed he never
measures distance by miles, put only by hours aud
even of these his ideas of the vaguest kind Ask
him how long since snch thing happened and he
will answer "A good while ago. AS he has no
clear memory Of the present SO he has no forecast
of the future. Like child he lives only IN the
present. Like a child. he acts wholly from impulse,
coon the feeling OF the moment. Like child. his
chief delight is in telling stories and Ill listening to
them The tales of the Arabian Nights are simply
a series of brilliant pictures OF what may be wit
messed still when a group gathers about O story
teller in the bazaars of Cairo or Damascus, or round
any camp fire on the desert. people who are thus
Int Children must be treated like children not like
full-grown men. IL is useless to present TO them
formal pI opositlons areuu ents should no more
think of reasoning with Bedawee than OF reason
ing with "a uaby Give him backsheesh, and that
lie can understand, but argument he cannot under
stand. Try to govern him by appealing to bis con-
science or his common sense, and you will make a
dismal failure He has little power of reflection or
of judgment, and very imperfect germ of moral
nature The ordinary standard by which he meas
ures men OF actions Is by the amount of backshee
they give. good one who gives plenty
backsheesh he who re fuses this is TO be accused
The English missionary al GAIA was the only man
who expressed TO Dr. Field any hope of reaching
the Bedaween in the direction of religious
instruction and civilization. As for the people Of
the cities, their fanaticlsm extnguishes all natural
feeling They have not even the common instinct of
gratitude for favors received. "No matter how
much YOU do for them" said the mission
arv, lit is never enough, and they are
never grateful He mentioned to DR..
Field a man whose poverty and destitutOn
were such AS moved him to pity, and no found him
employment 10 keep him from starving. And yet
that man." he said would come behind me when
walking in the street with my wife, and, thinking
we did not hear him. mutter the most horrible curses
OF heads"
The passage across the Wilderness natu-
rally recalled to DR.. Field the marvellous
ard touching records of Israeitish history,
ard he has nterspersed his "reminiscences of travel
with divers chapters ON the Hebrew commonwealth
and the Hebrew law which will be especially inter-
esting to Biblical students He has also given q
Gear and brief account of the Egyptian trouble.
sHoratio Plodgers; A Story Of To-Day" IL. b.
Smith & Co.. is an ingenious blending of politics
ana the tenderer emotions. Tne heroine has all
the projections that heroine should always pos
sess; the hero is practical politician with reason
ably lofty views and the father of the young lady
is Just unrslentng enough to make the romance cx-
citing The author, Mr.. s. II. Church, has evidently
earnest views politics and religion. His descrIp
tops of political methods are calculated please
and lmprov the average worker" The story turns