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TAYLOR, BAYARD. 



increased expenses of the Government, to tax 

 the emission of bank notes, spirits, and tobacco." 

 The Assembly adjourned on February 22d, and 

 met again on June 3d. The President of the 

 National Council was J. Philippin, of Neufcha- 

 tel, and the President of the Cantonal Council 

 A. Vessaz, of Lausanne, both elected in June, 

 1877. In the latter part of June the Federal 

 Council resolved to submit to the Federal As- 

 sembly a project for a national subvention to 

 the Gothard Railway of 6,500,000 francs. The 

 remaining 1,500,000 francs would be provided 

 by the Northern and Central Railway Company, 

 and no call would be made on individual can- 

 tons. The Assembly adjourned on June 29th, 

 and met again on July 29th, when it took up 

 the question of granting a Government subsidy 

 to the Gothard Railway. The National Council 

 on August 8th adopted the proposition of the 

 Federal Council by a vote of 87 to 41, and it 



was soon after also ratified by the Cantonal 

 Council. The session was closed on August 

 24th. 



The elections for members of the National 

 Council took place on October 27th, and re- 

 sulted in a victory for the Liberals, leaving the 

 political complexion of that body virtually as 

 it had been in the previous Council. At the 

 same time the cantons voted on the Gothard 

 question, which was sanctioned by 21 cantons. 



The new Assembly met on December 2d. In 

 the National Council, Romer, of Zurich, was 

 elected President, and in the Cantonal Council, 

 Gengel, of the Grisons. The Federal Assembly 

 then elected Hammer, of Soleure, as Federal 

 President, and Welti, of Aargau, as Vice-Presi- 

 dent. The other members of the Federal Coun- 

 cil elected were C. Schenk, Colonel Scherer, F. 

 Anderwert, J. Heer, and N. Droz. The Fed- 

 eral Assembly adjourned on December 20th. 



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TAYLOR, BAYARD, died in Berlin, Ger- 

 many, December 19, 1878. He was born in 

 Kennett Square, Chester County, Pa., January 

 11, 1825. His father kept a store in this vil- 

 lage, and afterward became a farmer. After 

 receiving a common-school education, Bayard 

 became in 1842 an apprentice in a printing-of- 

 fice in West Chester. He soon began to con- 

 tribute verses to magazines, and in 1844 pub- 

 lished a small volume of poems under the title 

 " Xiniena, or the Battle of the Sierra Morena." 

 With the money realized from this and ad- 

 vanced for letters to be written to the " United 

 States Gazette" and the "Saturday Evening 

 Post," together about $140, he went abroad, 

 and during 1844 and 1845 made a pedestrian 

 tour of Europe. In 1846, after his return, he 

 published "Views Afoot, or Europe seen with 

 Knapsack and Staff." The preface was writ- 

 ten by N. P. Willis, and so great was the pop- 

 ularity of the book that in ten years it reached 

 its twentieth American edition. After editing 

 for a year a newspaper in Phoanixville, Pa., he 

 went to New York, where he wrote for the 

 " Literary World," and soon after became an 

 editorial writer for the " Tribune," in which 

 journal many of his subsequent works of travel 

 first appeared, and with which he was con- 

 nected when appointed Minister to Germany 

 a short time before his death. In 1849 he 

 made a voyage to California, by way of Pana- 

 ma, returning by way of Mexico. The results 

 of this journey were given in "El Dorado, or 

 Adventures in the Path of Empire" (1850). 

 Ten thousand copies of this book were sold in 

 twelve days in this country. It reached its 

 eighteenth American edition in 1862, and had 

 an extensive sale in England. 



In 1851 Mr. Taylor set out on an extended 

 journey in the East, in the course of which he 

 ascended the Nile to lat. 12 30' N., and after- 



ward traveled extensively through Asia Minor, 

 Syria, and Europe. In the latter part of 1852, 

 setting out from England, he crossed Asia to 

 Calcutta, and went to China, where he joined 

 the expedition of Commodore Perry to Japan. 

 In 1862-'63 he was Secretary of Legation at 

 St. Petersburg, and part of the time Charge 

 d' Affaires. In 1874 he revisited Egypt, and 

 attended the millennial celebration in Iceland. 

 For this occasion he wrote a poem which was 

 translated into Icelandic and read at the cele- 

 bration. In February, 1878, Mr. Taylor was 

 appointed Minister to Germany.' He had long 

 resided in Germany at different periods, and 

 his services to c German literature, his intimate 

 personal associations with many distinguished 

 Germans, and his familiarity with the language, 

 country, and people, made his appointment pe- 

 culiarly appropriate. It was generally approved 

 in this country, and his reception in Germany 

 was cordial and enthusiastic. He was at his 

 post in this high office when he died. 



Mr. Taylor was a popular lecturer and a fre- 

 quent contributor to magazines and reviews. 

 His published works are numerous, and have 

 met with large sales. Many of them have been 

 translated into foreign languages. For several 

 years prior to his death he had been engaged 

 on a combined biography of Goethe and Schil- 

 ler. The great amount of literary labor which 

 he performed is shown by the following list of 

 his published works : " Ximena, or the Battle 

 of the Sierra Morena, and other Poems " (1 844) ; 

 " Views Afoot, or Europe seen with Knapsack 

 and Staff," with a preface by N. P. Willis (1846 ; 

 20th American edition, 1856); "Rhymes of 

 Travel, and California Ballads" (1848); /'El 

 Dorado, or Adventures in the Path of Empire " 

 (1850; 18th American edition, 1862); "The 

 American Legend," a poem delivered before 

 the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard Uni- 



