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Taylor, James Barnett

missionary, author, was born March 19, 1819, in England. He was a baptist missionary in Virginia; and the author of Life of Lot Cary; and Lives of Virginia Baptist Ministers. He died Dec. 22, 1871, in Richmond, Va. TAYLOR, [JAMES] BAYARD, author, poet, was born in 1825 in Pennsylvania.

He was an author well known as poet, novelist, translator, and traveler.

His volumes of verse comprise Ximena, and Other Poems; Rhymes of Travel; Poems and Ballads; Poems of Home and Travel; Poems of the Orient, his most original work; The Picture of St. John; The Poet's Journal; Lars; The Masque of the Gods; Home Pastorals; Prince Deukalion; The Prophet, a tragedy; and Centennial Ode. In fiction he published Beauty and the Beast; Hannah Thurston; The Story of Kennett; John Godfrey's Fortune; Joseph and His Friend. His travels include Views Afoot; Eldorado; Byways of Europe; Central Africa; Egypt and Iceland; Greece and Russia; At Home and Abroad; India, China, and Japan; The Lands of the Saracen; and Colorado. The translation of Faust is his greatest work, and the one on which his fame will most securely rest. Other works of his are School History of Germany; Literary Essays and Notes; Studies in German Literature; and The Echo Club, and Other Literary Diversions. He died in 1878.