Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1879 — Death of Bayard Taylor. [ARTICLE]

Death of Bayard Taylor.

There will be sorrow, universal afid deep, in two hemispheres, at the announcement which comes this morning of the death of Bayard Taylor, which is reported to have occurred at Berlin, yesterday afternoon, at four o’clock. Perhaps no literary man who ever lived in this country was more widely known than Mr. Taylor. The mature men and women of to-day remember his travels abroad, as related in the New York Tribune years ago, and remember them as a part of their earliest and pleasantest studies. Not a few of the friends he made then have kept up the literary acquaintance through all his subsequent wanderings and successes. Mr. Taylor, whose baptismal name was James Bayard, was born in Chester County, Pa., Jan. 11, 1825. If he had lived a few weeks longer he would therefore have attained the age of fifty-four. In early life he learned the printing business, and in 1844 began a two years’ travel on foot in Europe, which he completed at an outlay of but SSOO. The story of his travels was subsequently published under the title of “ Views Afoot; or, Europe Seen with Staff and Knapsack.” This book reached twenty-one editions, and was warmly commended here and in Europe. ' Updnnis return home, Mr. began the publication of a paper at Phoanixville, Pa., bat quit after an experience of one year. In. 1849 he became one of the editors and a co-pro-prietor of the New York Tribune. In 1851 he left for another tour abroad, and retnrnedln 1858, after accomplishing more than 50,000 miles of travel in Europe, Asia and Africa. In 1856, he made a third tour, which also consumed two years. In 1862 he was appointed Secretary of the American Legation at the Coart of St. Petersburg, and afterward performed the duties of Charge d’Affaires. His works embrace not only accounts of travel, but poetry and fiction, in both of which realms he won great and deserved success. A number of years age he married a German lady Of fine accomplishments, the daughter of Prof. Hansera, the distinguished German astronomer. He resided a great deal abroad, though he spent sufficient time in his own country to becomejcnown in almost every important town as a lecturer, in which field he was very successful. | Last summer he Vas appointed Minister to Berlin, a post exactly suited to his pastes, and he sailed from New York with the warmest wishes of hosts of friends, who gathered to wish him good-by. His death will excite almost as much sorrow In Germany and England urta the United States, for he was a true cosmopolite, and it can be said of him Jdiat bR Sleight of hand—Refusing a marriage proposal.