The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-03-27
Bayard Taylor.

lecture was one of the most classical and
finished productions that we have ever list
rned to,sand was received with marked SEN
sations of pleasure by large audience. His
cnunciation was very clear, deliberate and
distinct, and MS voice strong, musical and
we'll modnlated. His gestures were some
what constrained and awkward, showing
that he is not yet much accustomed to pub
lie speaking. His notes were before him,
but the lecture was so we'll conned that he
had but little occasion to refer to them.
The subject was somewhat amplified and
dlated upon, but there was but little said
that was new to those who have attentively
read his letters in the Tribune from Africa
and Asia. The principal incentive with us
was curiosity to see and hear the most dar-
ing, energetic and extensive American trav-
eler of our day. His temperament and ply
sical form are in perfect unison with his
character--ust right for action and endu-
rance. His personal appearance and bearing
are excellent,-he is decidedly good look
ing
We copy the following in regard to him
from the Sandusky Register:
Besides being lecturer of fine power, he
is Just such a man as the world should love to
honor, whose life has not been an experiment
but one Of manly action, and from which he
has reaped the noblest of rewards--the ad-
miration Of his countrymen He is a self
do q
men, may, with safety, initiate.
Bayard Taylor was printer boy, and after
attaining an education, gathered together his
little means for tour over Europe. With
three hundred dollars he started from our
shores; and that amount, with some small
sums earned as correspondent OF the New
York Tribune and another paper, served TO
bear him all over the Continent. A hardy,
aagacious youth, with his knapssck on his
back he travelled afoot from Cadlz to St.
Pe,ersburgh and won such knowledge of
the peOplc Of Europe as was worth his pains
and prlvations. Upon his return-his let
,crS ia the Tribune having alread won him
name--he published his Views Afoot,"
one of the most readable and interesting
volumes of travel that ever issued from the
American Press, Its sale was very large
aud the author stepped into an enviable re-
pute. 1t was shortly followed by his
- Rhymes Of Travel" his first volume of
Poems This book added to his fortune, as
we'll as to his fame, and made the author S
name household word. He soon became an
associate editor of the n. Y. Tribune; and
TO this time has been either active or cores
1onding member of the editorial corps OF
that paper When the California fever u
broke out, and the mines became the resort
of thousands, he departed for this El Dorado
10 take notes. for the Tribune He spent
twenty months in the Gold Regions, Mon
terey, &c, and then returned home to pub
iish his g FL Dorado" and his California
Ballads both of which books added ma
Ierialy to his reputation and his means
After resting awhile, he determined on an
expedition TO Egypt, the Holy Land, the
Indies, &c, and left our shores early in the
summer Of 1851. We are all familiar with
that memorable tour" for who has not
followed him through his letters to the Tri-
bune? After exploring Egypt and her aged
ruins, he penetrated the Nile to point far
ther into Nubia than amy white man ever
had attempted, except the German Catholic
missionary, DR.. Knoblecker, who is now, il
alive, in the heart of Africa, at the head
waters of the mysterious river. Returning
lie passed to Jerusalem, by the Desert and
through Petrea-then he visited Ninevat