The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-01-02
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tanning the above lines, has hardly
made its appearance. before the>tele-
graph announces the sad tidings of the
death of its writer. It is but a few
months ago that the venerable William
Cullen Bryant presided at the banquet
given to Mr.. Taylor upon the eve of his
departure to Berlin to assume his du-
ties as Minister of the United States to
Germany, and delivered parting I'D
dress full of kindlN feelihg,jto Which
Mr.. Taylor fSeHngi yrespbndtd.a Since
his departure, Mr.. Bryant has passed
away, and the January number of the
atlantic Monthly contains q poetical
tribute t9 his memory from Mr.. Tay-
lor's pen, and now the latter has gone
tv join his friend, and great name
has dropped out Of the list Of our living
writer's. {st& s." Fpft III ,F"e
The story of his life is briefly told, for
it has been mainly spent in travel and
books, and the former has been largely
utilized In the service Of the latter. He
was born in Chester County, Pa, Jan.
II, 1925, and In 1842 commenced his
life work as an, apprentice in print
ing0Aca In i West Chester. Three
years afterward he made tour through
Europe ON foot. and upon his return in
1876 published IS Views Afoot, or 1u-
rope Seen with Knapsack and STAFF. "
which aroused very general ambition
among tourists to travel in the same
pedestrian style. During the next year
be edited. q newspaper in Phenixville,
Pa, and than went to New York, where
hebecame identified with the Tribune,
to which journal he has contributed
moro or less ever since, and in which
many IF his smaller works have made
their first appearance. In, 1849 he
made the tour of California, and re-
turned by way of Mexico. The year
1851 was spent in the East, and during
his tour he assembled the Nile and
also traversed a large portion of Asia
gland, crossing Asia to Calcutta, thence
going to- China, where he joined
Com. Perry's Japan expedition. In
1928 he was, Secretary of Legation
at St. Petersburg, Simon Cameron then
being Minister. After residing some
time in Germany, for which country he
had a special affection, he returned to
his native land and made several
lecture tours, which were remarkably
successful, as few lecturers ever had 50
much to say to people that was new
and entertaining. In 1874 he revisited
Egypt, and in the same year went to
Iceland to attend the Millennial cele-
bration, where poem of his was read.
He was sufficiently cosmopolitan by
nature to accommodate himself to all
countries, and probably no traveller has
been more loved and respected by for
eigners than he. He had welcome &C
cess to their homes, and, being man
of close powers of observation, he has
not only acquainted US with the gen.
eral aspects of countries, but with
pictures of home life such as few men
except Auerbach have ever drawn
with this notable exception, that while
Auerbach's observations have been
limited to narrow region of his own
country, Bayard Taylor was a citizen
of the world, and broke bread with the
people of many strange countries. His
travels have enriched our literature
with many works. re
His literary work has not been con
fined to books of travel. His busy per
was almost constantly employed, and
his ambition and industry; led him
through almost every department oi
literary activity. As q poet, he was
characterized by vigor ard force united
with purity of sentiment rather than
by the imaginative faculty or by the
dreaminess and mystery that charac-
terize so many of our latter-day poets.
In translations his work is the most
valuable, because it is the best that has
ever been done by an American writer,
while in the case of his splendid YER
sion of Goethe's "Taust' it may be
fairly questioned whether it is not the
best translation Of that great poem ever
made in any country. a,
His literary activity continued to the
very close of his life. If we are not
mistaken, one of his strongest reasons
for wishing the position to which Presi-
dent Hayes appointed him was that he
might be where he could easily secure
materials for his "Life of Goethe, -
upon which be was at work when death
suddenly interyenea and the pen
dropped from kiS hands. Few Ameri-
can writer's will be 80 sincerely mourned,
for few of them are SO well known to
the people. His strong, rugged, vigor-
GUS nature, his genial, hospitable, man
~ bearing, the purity as well IS excel
lence of his works, and his chivalrous
character as a gentleman, will com.
mend his memory to his countrymen.
The story of his death will be told and
his memory will be tenderly recalled in
almost every part of the world. Among
the SHOWS Of Iceland, in the shadow Of
the Pyramids, under the palms of India,
wherever his restless feet have wan
dered, there will be friends who will be
panied to know that this great, strong
heart has ceased 10 beat, and that the
wanderer il forever at rest Chicago
Tribune.
- The Grandeur Of Ancestry.
SPEAKING of relics, just before we
reached Portsmouth, a man entered in
to conversation with me. He said:
lyon are from the WestP''
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