ferrymen and omnibus drivers of Brooklyn, and his poetry is expressive of his democratic spirit. He was gifted with feeling and imagination, and his tenderness was remarkable when we consider the man and his life. He had a splendid physique and a tenacious, dogged spirit, inherited from his Dutch-English ancestry. He was devoted to his friends, among whom he numbered Emerson, Longfellow, Bryant, and Whittier. When Whitman visited Boston and Concord, in 1881, he carried a stone and laid it on the cairn which marks the spot where his friend Thoreau had lived.

Burroughs's Estimate." Opinion will doubtless long be divided about the value of his work. He said he was willing to wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself. That this taste is growing, that the new generations are coming more and more into his spirit and atmosphere, that the mountain is less and less forbidding, and looms up more and more as we get farther from it, is obvious enough. That he will ever be in any sense a popular poet is in the highest degree improbable; but that he will kindle enthusiasm in successive minds; that he will be an enormous feeder to the coming poetic genius of his country; that he will enlarge criticism and make it easy for every succeeding poet to be himself and to be American; and finally that he will take his place among the few major poets of the race, I have not the least doubt."

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

Beat! Beat! Drums!; O Captain! My Captain!; When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloomed; Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry; Come up from the Fields, Father; To the Man-of-War Bird; The City Dead-House; Pioneers, O Pioneers.

HELPFUL BOOKS

John Burroughs's Whitman, A Study.

William Clarke's Life of Whitman.

W. D. O'Connor's The Good Gray Poet, a Defence of Walt Whitman.

1825, Jan. 11.

1840-1842

Bayard Taylor

XIX. BAYARD TAYLOR

CHRONOLOGY

. Born at Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

Tutor at Unionville Academy.

Pedestrian tour in Europe.

Married Miss Mary Agnew.

Travels in the Orient.

1844-1846

1850

1851-1853

1854-1856

1856-1858

In Europe again.

Married Miss Marie Hansen.

"Cedarcroft" finished.

Secretary of Russian legation.

Non-resident professor of German at
Cornell.

In Germany.

1878. .
1878, Dec. 19.

Minister to Germany.
Died in Berlin.

Life. Conspicuous for his versatility among the writers in American literature is Bayard Taylor, who during his life acquired considerable fame as a traveler, novelist, poet, critic, journalist, and lecturer. He was born about thirty miles from Philadelphia, at Kennett Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania, January 11, 1825. He was descended from Robert Taylor, who came to America with William Penn. In his youth he attended the village academy, and was noted for his passionate love of poetry. He read with avidity the works of Scott, Campbell, Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, and Lowell. He himself began to write verses at a very early age, publishing his first volume, consisting of fifteen poems, in 1844. Through the aid of N. P. Willis, whose Pencillings by the Way he had eagerly read, he was enabled to gratify his desire for travel. He sailed for Europe in July, 1844, and spent the next two years tramping on the Continent, living and dressing as the natives of whatever clime he visited. After his return to New York, he published the result of his experiences, under the title, Views Afoot, with a preface by Willis. The volume met with universal approval, and made a name for the young author. The next few years

Taylor spent in journalistic work, receiving valuable training on the New York Tribune, under the direction of Horace Greeley. In October, 1850, he married Miss Mary Agnew, an acquaintance of his childhood, who lived but two months after her marriage. In order to distract his mind in this great sorrow, Taylor started once more on his travels. He spent over two years visiting the East, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, India, and Japan, - seeking always to enter into the true life of the people of these various lands, by wearing their costume and adopting many of their customs. On his return

to America he began a course of lectures on the countries through which he had traveled, and these met with instant success. With the money

In

thus earned, he bought a tract of land near his native town and built a beautiful home, which he named "Cedarcroft." In 1856 he sailed for Europe, this time visiting Lapland and Sweden. 1857 he married Miss Marie Hansen, the niece of a fellow-voyager on the Nile. On his return to his native land, in 1858, he began his second series of lectures, which were fully as successful as the first. The remaining years of his life were spent mainly at "Cedarcroft," where hospitality was dispensed with a gracious hand by him and his charming wife. In 1862 he served the New York Tribune as its war correspondent. In 1869 he was appointed non-resident professor of German at