Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-08-12

no other English-speaking writer
could so well transfer and interpret
TO our sense and mind the characters
Of those great Germans as Bayard
Taylor.
have not told you that this was a
slender, tall rather delicate youth.
quite unfit for rugged farm work.
even had his taste not led him to
other pursuits. so that his parents
permitted him the more time for
study and reading, a privilege Of
which he availed himself to the full.
for his writings show him to have
had wide and intimate knowledge Of
books and learning In maturity he
grew to be a big, stalwart man, Of
commanding presence and noble as
pect. His love for his mother was
always prominent characteristic,
shown especially in his confiding let
tors 20 her from abroad and publish
ed in the admirable and interesting
Life and Letters" written and ed
tied some six years after his death,
by his wife. Marie Vanson Taylor.
Mrs Taylor's own autobiography"
Two Continents not only a love
~ book. showing a home-life in Ger
many, that Is exceptionally pleasing
and new to us of America, but after
her marriage TO Bayard Taylor, in
1875. the recital includes his life. his
work. his interests, as they became
essentially her own: for they were
entirely united and thoroughly con-
genial. II was a most happy union.
heard the husband once say that his
wife had been his good conscience 10
whom he had referred all doubtful
literary questions as we'll as every
matter OF judgment or taste, and had
always found the test a true one.
She is a very noble and sweet-naturet
woman. now Sc years old, who has
lived in New York since her husbands
death. but went last year to Munich
10 Join her only child. Lillian. Mrs
Kiliani, who was in Austria al The
breaking out Of the war. and has beer
ever since devotng herself to hospi
tai and Red Cross work, while hei
husband. DR.. Kiliani a noted Aus
trian surgeon, has been mostly at th'
front, doing all in his power to re
lieve the sufferings OF the wounded
and dying soldiers.
In 1874, when Bayard Taylor wal
but 10 yeaNs old. he, with his cousin
Dr. Franklin Taylor and Barclay Pen
mock. a friend and neighbOr. started
on the first Of our travellers man,
journeys. II was not then an every
day occurrence to go to Europe Their
we're no big swift steamers. with ev
. cry luxury; there was not mucl
money and what was TO be had. mus
be made TO go a long way. and do
great deal Of service. The return L
America was not to be in a few weeks
or months, the parting must he 70
years. What a commotion. what
pleasing. yet saddening excitemen
this proposed journey TO Europe mad
in the quiet community Of Kennett
Friends, old and young. met in az
fectionate farewell parties, exchang
ing tokens of membranes and es
TEEN. loving farewells were taker
words of hope and encouragement
were given blessings. tears. God
speeds followed them. and with one
still tender sentiment was cherishe,
e Nesting in the heart OF Bayard Tay
% Tor was the shy, young love OF sWee
, brown-eyed Mary Agnew. the onl
q daughter In a neighboring tamil
a They had been schoolmates, play-fe
), lows. lovers almost from childhoo
;. and the world can never know, bl
= only surmise, how much this love
his youth helped Nature make II
poet, how much IL buoyed his spiri
j and stimulated his ambition. and wa
n a beacon in his anxious, busy life a
S writer and editor in New York, wher
Y he settled on his return from TIL
70 first trip TO Europe.
i But the light went OUT Mary AS
t new. always a delicate flower in he
< young womanhood fell a victim {
r consumption, with all its delusiv
e changes. its sick loving alienation
r Of hope and fear. They waited 70
r her recovery. but it did not come, 81