TAYLOR, BAYARD

(1825-78), an American author; 6. in Pennsylvania, He was apprenticed to a printer, but in 1844 set sail for Liverpool and spent the next two years in travel, the result of which appeared in his Views Afoot, or Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff, 1846. He went to Mexico, and published a book of travels entitled Hl Dorado, or Adventures in the Path of Empire, 1850. He next visited Egypt, Asia Minor, India, Hong-Kong, China, and Japan, and recorded his journeys in A Journey to Central Africa, 1854; The Land of the Saracen, 1854; and A Visit India, China, and Japan, 1855. His} narrative poem, Lars, and Northern Travel Sobesred as a result of a visit to Sweden, Denmark, and Lapland, but his a putatron G ee oe “aes BE ea cr gutempts of tis kind, Taylor also wrote novels (e.g.) Hannah Thurston, Studies 1863, in and German critical Literature, | e ays, notanly 1879.