TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825-1878), b. Kennett Square, Chester Co., Pa. Extensive traveler, wrote twelve different volumes of travels, the first being _Views Afoot, or Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff_ (1846). He wrote also much poetry. Among the best of his shorter poems are _The Bedouin Song_, _Nubia_, and _The Song of the Camp. Lars: a Pastoral of Norway_ is his best long poem. The work by which he will probably remain longest known in literature is his excellent translation of Goethe's _Faust_. THAXTER, CELIA LAIGHTON (1836-1894), b. Portsmouth, N.H. Spent most of life upon Isles of Shoals. Artist, author. _Poems_ (Appledore Edition, 1896). Best single poem, _The Sandpiper_. THOMAS, EDITH MATILDA (1854- ), b. Chatham, Ohio. Poet. _A New Year's Masque, A Winter Swallow, and Other Verse, Fair Shadow Land, Lyrics and Sonnets_. TICKNOR, GEORGE (1791-1871), b. Boston, Mass. _A History of Spanish Literature_. TORREY, BRADFORD (1843-1912), b. Weymouth, Mass. Nature writer. _Birds in the Bush_, _The Footpath Way_, _Footing it in Franconia_. Editor of Thoreau's _Journal_. TOURGEE, ALBION W. (1838-1905), b. Williamsfield, Ohio. Educated in New York. Soldier, judge, novelist of the reconstruction period. _A Fool's Errand_, _Bricks without Straw_. TROWBRIDGE, JOHN TOWNSEND (1827-1916), b. Ogden, N.Y. Editor, novelist, poet, juvenile writer. _My Own Story_ (biography) Among his stories for young people are _The Drummer Boy_, _The Prize Cup_, _The Tide-Mill Stories._ Best known poem, _The Vagabonds_. VAN DYKE, HENRY (1852- ), b. Germantown, Pa. Clergyman, professor, essayist, poet. _The Builders and Other Poems_, _Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things_, _The Story of the Other Wise Man_. An interesting, optimistic philosopher, and lover of nature, whose works deserve the widest reading. WARD, ARTEMUS. See BROWNE, CHARLES F. WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911), b. Boston, Mass. Novelist. _The Gates Ajar_, _The Story of Avis_, _A Singular Life_. WARNER, CHARLES DUDLEY (1829-1900), b. Plainfield, Mass. Traveler, journalist, essayist. Wrote the _Editor's Drawer_ and _Editor's Study of Harper's Magazine. My Summer in a Garden_ and _Backlog Studies_ are delightful for their subtle humor and style. He wrote many entertaining books of travel, such as _Saunerings_, _In the Levant_, _My Winter on the Nile_, _Baddeck and that Sort of Thing._ He wrote _The Gilded Age_ in collaboration with Mark Twain. WEBSTER, NOAH (1758-1843), b. Hartford, Conn. Philologist. Published in 1783 his famous _Speller_, which superseded _The New England Primer_, and which almost deserves to be called "literature by reason of its admirable fables." More than sixty million copies of this _Speller_ have been sold. WESTCOTT, EDWARD NOYES (1847-1898), b. Syracuse, N. Y. Banker, author of one remarkable novel which was published posthumously, _David Harum_, a story of central New York.