The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-26
OBITUARY.
Bayard TayIor-

Bayard Taylor, American Minister
Germany, died at Berlin, of dropsy. O
the 10Th of December, 1878.
Mr.. Taylor was born in Kenne
Square, Chester county, Pa, Jan. l
1926, and in 1912 became an apprentio
In printing Office in West Chester. II
had had very slender educational at
vantages, but his desire to see the worl
early developed itself, and after tw
years work at the case he started on
trip through Europe He was alread
an author, having in 1874 pubhshe
" Alnena; or, the Battle of the Sierl
Moreno, and Other Poems" Some
these poems were originally publishe
IN the New York Mirror and Graham
Magazine.
He spent two years travelling throug
Europe on foot, occasionally suspendin
his travels to replenish his excheQuf
by such jobs as he was able to secur
His tour cost him $500. On returnin
to America in 1916 he published the
suit of his observations in book e.
titled Views Afoot; or, Europe See
with knapsack and Staff" This boo
may almost be said to have inaugurate
new era in the literature of travels.
was fresh, intelligent and free from Il
conventionalities of cld-time traveller
and soon after it appeared the Londt
Ahe11eatn pronounced it an earnes
sensible and manly book" That it W
popular is proved by the fact that tt
twentieth edition was published in 49,
and several editions have appear,
since.
For year after his return your
Taylor edited paper in Phmnixvil
Pa, and then went to New York q
wrote for the Literary World, soon |
coming member of the editorial st
of the Tribune, in which paper seve,
of his books of travel first appeared.
1S49 he went to California, and return
by way of Mexico, the literary result
which was Eldorado; or, Adventm
in the Path of Empire" This appear
in 1850, in two volumes, and 100
copies of it were sold in America
twelve days. Within a few years aft
it's appearance 10000 copies had be
sold in England, and the eighteen
American edition was published
1862.
In 1851 he started on q tour of me
than 10000 miles in three continent
He went first to the Levant and ascend,
to latitude twelve deg. and thirty mi
utes north, and then travelled extensive
through Syria, Asia Minor and Euror
In the latter part or 1852 he startt
from England, travelling across Asia
Calcutta, whence he proceeded to Chin
where he joined Commodore M.
Perry's expedition and went with it
Japan. Three books resulted from til
tour. ga Journey to Central Africa; c
Life and Landscape from Egypt to Il
Negro Kingdoms of the White Nile" W;
published in 1854. "The Lands of Il
Saracen; or, Pictures of Palestine, As
Minor, Sicily, and SPAIN" was pul
Hshed the same year, and "a Visit
India, China and Japan in the YET
1853 was published in 1856. All {
these books achieved the highest prais
from English as well as American cri
les.
In 1862 Mr.. Taylor accepted the az
pointment of Secretary of Legation t
st. Petersburg, and in 1868 becam
Charge GAfaires. On his return i
1864 ne devoted himself to featuring
and to various literary pursuits. !
large part of his time he has spent i
Germany, where he collected material
for a projected life of Goethe, an
worked on his translation of Faust.
He spent the summer of 1873 at Vienna
In 1874 he revisited Egypt, and the1
went to the millennial celebration il
Iceland, where he was very cordial,
received. He delivered a poem at The
centennial celebration of American
independence, at Philadelphia, July 4
1876. He then returned to his ole
place on the New York Tribune, where
he remained until appointed Ministe,
to Germany last summer.
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