The National tribune., 1900-10-25
RECENT LITERATURE.
IN THE DESERT BY George Ebers.
Published by Dodd Mead & Co., New
York Price, $1.50.

IN THE DESERT. BY George Ebers.
Published by Dodd, Mead & Co., New
York. Price, $1.50.
George Ebers's stories Of ancient Egypt
are well known and highly valued. This
story of modern Egypt is not so powerful
as his ''Uarda," Homo Sum-" and otn-
ers, but it is above the average of the
output of stories of today in interest and
profit. 1t is a well-written story of the
German type, set in Oriental surround
ings, and concerns the affairs of a young
woman who believes in NietZsche and
tries to live her life according to his new
gospel Nietzsche, it will be remembered
was Il philologist, who went insane on the
d-fashioned Aryan theory and set
up as a sort of semi-deity the Aryan as
he imagined him, a tall, fearless, blonde
savage, wholly devoid Of kindly feeling or
consideration, or any of the slave yir-
tues" as he called the ordinary run of
Christian charities. The young woman
finds an Arab-one of her guides in Egypt
who fills the description, except for the
blondness, and tries to argue herself in
love with him and out of love with doc
tor full of "slave virtues" The Arab
doesn't realize the situation, and happeng
to mention that he has two wives and
five children, whereupon she has revul-
sion of feeling for some mysterious femi-
nine reason, and cuts ont the Nietzsche
doctrines from her platform.
FROM THE LAND OF THE SHAM
ROCK. By Jane Barlow. Published
by Dodd, Mead e. Company, New York.
Price, S1.50.
Jane Barlow, author of Irish Idyls,"
"Bogland Stories" and other tales of the
"ould' country is pleasant writer, and
tells good stories, with the smell Of the
peat fires in them and rollicking, jolly,
Irish spirit of humor and adventure. In
the stories of this collection there are no
very startling incidents, or dramatic eli
makes, but there is always a placid little
tale to be told and the scenes are not
hackneyed. Nor is the dialect thrown in
with a pitchfork, as in some recent Irish
sketches. There is enough, but not too
much.
AN EAGLE FLIGHT. A Filipino novel.
BY DR.. Jose Rial. Published by Nc
Clure, Phillips & Co., New York. Price,
$3.50.
This is a series of charcoal sketches OF
n drama unfolding itself in q Filipino vii
lage upon the return from Spain of
young half-breed with high ideals. The
characters are many, the action hurried
and the setting utterly strange and unfa-
miliar, so that the book can hardly be rec
commended to the casual reader. But il
is worth studying by those interested in
our new colonies, since u pOfLrdyS Iagdi
life as seen by n Tagalo. The hero-who
bears striking resemblance to Rial him
self-is a fine fellow enough, but his Eu-
ropean education sundcrs him from the
life of his native town. He is finally
ground between the miIlstones of a stupid.
impotent Government and an equally stu
pid but malicious and active theocracy.
Magazines and Notes.
John Bach McMaster, author of "a
History of the People of the United
States" will begin in the November Cen
fury series of papers on Daniel Web
ster.
Good Housekeeping, 50 Lafayette Place,
New York, has changed hands, and ap-
pears in a much-improved and very at
tractive form.
With its November issue, The Century
Mdgd-inc begins Year Of Romance"
during which many Of the most famous
living writers of fiction will contribute to
the magazine short stories, novels or nov
elettes.
The Century means to make its Novem-
Der and December numbers the most beau
tiful issues ever published. Color printing
will be largely used