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Europe; A Visit to India, China and Japan; 

 four novels, of which Hannah Thurston is the 

 best ; and the volumes of poems : A Book of Ro- 

 mances, Lyrics and Songs; Poems of the 

 Orient; Lars, a Pastoral of Norway; The Na- 

 tional Ode, and Prince Deucalion. 



TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667), an English 

 preacher and author, born at Cambridge and 

 educated at Caius College. Gaining the favor- 

 able notice of Laud, he was accorded a fellow- 

 ship at All Souls', Oxford, and was made chap- 

 lain to Charles I, to whose cause he remained 

 loyal throughout all the years of the civil war, 

 which ended in the execution of the king in 

 1649. 



Before the outbreak of the struggle he had 

 been appointed rector of Uppingham, but 



he lost that post, and during the early part of 

 the war was in the royal army as chaplain. For 

 a time he was imprisoned in Wales and after 

 his release remained in that country, teaching 

 school and writing. It was here that his most 

 famous works were produced: The Liberty of 

 Prophesying, the Life of Christ, Holy Living 

 and Holy Dying. At the Restoration he was 

 made bishop of Down and Connor, in Ireland, 

 and notwithstanding his position there was 

 rendered unpleasant he remained, faithful to 

 his duties, until his death. His works, espe- 

 cially his sermons and his Holy Living and 

 Holy Dying, are models of eloquence, and they 

 abound in poetic imagery and evidences of a 

 rich and fertile imagination. Holy Living and 

 Holy Dying remain popular. 



STORY OF ZACHARY TAYLOR 



AYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850), an 

 American soldier and statesman, twelfth Presi- 

 dent of the United States. Taylor was the 

 second President to die in office, William 

 Henry Harrison being the first, only nine years 

 earlier. His untimely death, coming only six- 

 teen months after his inauguration, cut off his 

 political career at its very beginning, for he 

 had held no political office of any kind previous 

 to the Presidency. He was a soldier for forty 

 years, and it was his reputation as the hero of 

 the Mexican War that was the decisive factor 

 in making him President. Without political 

 training, he saved himself through his courage, 

 his conscientiousness and his good judgment. 

 These carried him through difficulties in which 

 the training of the politician would have been 

 worthless. Conscious of his inexperience, he 

 relied on the advice of others, but his judg- 

 ment kept him steady amid confusing, con- 

 flicting channels. Had he lived to serve out 

 his term the soldier would almost surely have 

 proved himself a statesman of a high order. 



Zachary Taylor was born in Orange County, 

 Virginia, on September 24, 1784. He was the 

 third son of Colonel Richard Taylor, a Revo- 

 lutionary officer. At the close of the war, 

 Colonel Taylor retired to his Orange County 



plantation, but in 1785 he removed to Ken- 

 tucky, which was then part of Virginia, and 

 took up a farm near the present city of Louis- 

 ville. Of formal schooling young Zachary had 

 none. The new settlement offered few oppor- 

 tunities for scholastic training, but it did teach 

 thrift, industry and self-denial. It also taught 

 many things about war and military life, for 

 many of Colonel Taylor's neighbors were Revo- 

 lutionary soldiers who had received grants of 

 land from Virginia. Before the colonel's wide 

 hearth were told stories of the dark days of 

 the Revolution and reminiscences of brave 

 deeds. Undoubtedly this military past had its 

 influence on the Taylor boys, for all but one 

 of the five joined the army. 



Early Career in the Army. During young 

 Zachary's early manhood the United States be- 

 came involved in disputes with France and 

 Great Britain over the rights of neutral com- 

 merce and other matters affected by the Na- 

 poleonic Wars. In 1808 the status of these 

 disputes seemed to point to immediate war 

 with Great Britain. Congress authorized an 

 increase in the size of the army, and of one of 

 the new regiments, the Seventh Infantry, 

 Zachary Taylor was appointed first lieutenant. 

 Two years later he was promoted to the rank 



