Daily Republican., 1878-12-20
DEATn or RAYABD TAYLOa.
The DistinguisAeA Ministsr % the
Gsrman EMplre Dies q Berlin,

"o" u"o 70 s"s ott expressed &pnOl
ism that, death loves shinin
mark and now it Is Bayard Taylo
the Ameri ,aI MinisterI Plpnipotsntiar
to the Court OF Berlin, the scholar. tn
poet, the traveller, the journalist, tn
statesman, that hes fallen a victim t
the surely aimed dart Of death. Fo
several weeks past the precarious co,
dition Of Mr.. Taylor's health has bee
the subject Of newspaper comment an,
the public were generally led to believ
that he was recovering; still there wa
an uneasy anxiety on the part Of hi
friends which showed that the news q
his death at any time would not disap
point them.
Notwithstanding that this was tn
case the following telegram in last even
ing's papers, brought tn. rather unex
pected and painful intelligence of Bay
ard Taylor's death:
BERLIN, Dec. l9.-Bayard Taylor,
Minister of the United States, died a
4 o'clock this afternoon. The tata
symptoms came on suddenly. He had
been out Of bed and was transsStine
business with the officials of the Amer.
ican Legation yesterday. His death
was peaceful and painless.
Bayard Taylor was born in Kennett
Square, Chester county, Pennsylvania,
January IL, 1925, and at the time OF
his death was not "a years Of age. At
the age of seventeen he became an ap
prentice in printing Office at West
Chester. He here wrote poetry in the
intervals of setting type, and his crude
verses made such an impression that
two years later, George X. Graham, OF
drsham's Magazine, always an emf
nent and appreciativs patron of dawn
ing genius, was induced to advance
The ardent youth about $50, Oh the
strength of articles to crme. and which
Taylor thought was enough for him TO
90 to Europe upon.
He went across the ocean in the steer
sge, walked over the main roads of the
and in ls46 published his
Views Afoot; or Europe Seen with
inapsack and staff" This book, issu
I'd by Putnam, secured him at once a
rational reputation. In the meanwhile
le had effected an alliance with the
New York Tribune, and Horace Greeley
,ave him rowing commission to 90
where he saw fit, describe what he
hose in letters to the Tribune, and
lraw good pay for his work. He was
ubsequently put upon the editorial
taft Of that paper, and became a stock
lolder in the concern.
In rapid succession he visited Califor-
lia and Mexico, Africa, and the Upper
Vile regions, India, China and Japan.
tussia, Scandinavia, Iceland, &C., each
our being described in letters to the
Tribune, which afterwards were collee-
ed and revised and published in vol
lme, Before he finished travelling he
ould converse fuently in seventeen
anguages. Mr.. Taylor married a Ger
nan lady in Gotha, the daughter of
rof. Hausen, the geographer. during
ne civil war in this country, and since
is marriage has travelled but little, de-
citing himself to literature and the
of his culture with the
Ime energy which he originally gave
the indulgence Of his travellers in
inct.
He has been an Industrious and vol.
ninous author, besides lscturing Ak
In addition to the collected
Dlumes of his travels, the most of
hich were originally published in the
lape of Tribune correspondence, Mr..
aylor has produced several volumes
poems which will probably long sur
i've him, series of American novels,
hich have attracted the attention of
itics and the praise and patronage of
aderS and he has also made some OF
e best translations in the language
ON the German, notably metrical
le of Goethe's Faust. More recently
) has been engaged upon the lives of
pethe and Schiller.