The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-18
GEN. TAYLOR ABROAD.
The Impression He created on ALI Glasses
of Eminent PeOple-Hts social
TrtUmphS.
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The browning triumphs Of Gen. Taylor's
social career were won in England ana on the
Continent of Europe some years ago lie nrSt
gained notoriety at the London clubs by hls
admirable skill as q whist player. He was q
disciple of Hoyle and the older school OF play
ers and cared little for the modern niceties OF
the game. His memory was wonderful, and
he never forgot q card. The English club men,
who had learned their science from James
CLAW. Cavendish and Pole. were astonished at
this old-fashioned player, who beat them Ia
spite of their rules and formulas. so Gen
Taylor's fame came to the ears OF the Prince
OF Wales, who loves rubber next to tiger
Club one night and played together;
Thus began an intimacy which endured
to the last. Wherever the Prince
went, whether to Sandringham for q Whit
OF rustic air. or to Scotland to stalk the
deer, or to the races at Ascot, or to the univer-
s.ty boat race on the Thames, thither he was
certain to invite Gen. Taylor. He intro
duced him at Windsor to the Queen, and the
Queen was SO charmed with his company that
she prayed him to stay for week at the
invited Gen. Taylor to be one OF the party.
But the General preferred to stay in London,
and many quiet rubber was played at the
Marlborough House by the Princess, the
Duke Of Cambridge and the American while
the Prince was riding in al elephant howdah
box at Ascot his figure was familiar to every
Jockey on the course, though his means never
| allowed him to own race horses and rarely to
bet. One wager he took, however, the issue OF
which troubled him to the last He was on the
Princes boat following the university crews
when the Earl of Dudley, spying some token
OF French Imperialism on the | wn at CHS
wick, suddenly cried that he would bet E50oo
to E10, twice over, that the NapoleOnie
dynasty was never restored In France The
If WuIac took ri fhA2a hpt| (Ipn
Taylor took the other, and he has ever since
regarded the metamOrphOSeS OF French poll
tics with an uncommonly wistful eye. But
despite this newborn ardor Tor imperialism
he was received with much distinction In
Paris by Marshall MacMahon, and even the
rugged Bismarck greeted him with warmth
that savored of personal friendship. Indeed
his passage across the Continent was one o1
| unalloyed triumph, and the first gentlemen
In Europe were proud to call him their
| friend.
At the root Of this prodigious success lay
his wonderful faculty for being all things tt
all men. Whatever the topic OF conversation
| might be to that he would adapt himself
ou eha yogsr Ehsa he as waz
bers of the Prince OF Wales set would meet
at the Marlborough he would discuss coaches
| with Lord Darlington. cock pheasants witt
Lord Ay lesford and the latest horse race witt
Lord Charles Beresford. In the park with
!
| redolent Of antique chivalry. At the Tur
Club he would arrange handicaps witt
Admiral Rous and help Lord Rosebery
make his book for the Newmarket meeting
At the AthenRum he would cross literary
swords with Sir Charles Dixie, and at the
United Services would discuss military tao
tics with Sir Garnet Wolsey and LORD
Napier of Magdala. Nothing came amiss t.
him. George Otto Trevelyan, nephew o
Lord Macauay, read his articles in the Nortl
| American Reuielc, and said there was in hin
the stuff OF a great military writer. States
men listened with delight to his disserta
tions on the American constitution. Vol
Moltke himself gave in his honor the dinner
at which he met Prince Bismarck. Every
| where he spread about him the charm of his
personality, and nothing distinguished hin
from the crowd of rdc01,teurs more than this
that his conversation was never forced or ou
of place, never labored Or prepared before
hand yelling up naturally from the stores o
a naturally rich mind.