Mr. Taylor was married in October following his return from Norway and Sweden, to Marie Hansen, whose father had already gained a world-wide reputation as an astronomer¹ through his works on Physical Astronomy, and was then winning renown² for his “Tables de la Lune,” for which he was given a prize by the English Government, as a public benefactor³. He was a man of remarkable⁴ mathematical genius, universally respected, and the founder⁵ of the Erfurt Observatory⁶ near Gotha. It was a family of scholars which received Mr. Taylor as a son and brother, and a fortunate alliance for the world of letters. It would be interesting to our readers, no doubt, to know all about the ceremony, the guests, the letters, and the relatives. But that which at some future day may be elevated to the plane of history, would be mere⁷ gossip now; and could only serve, for the present, to bring more vividly[266] before his loved ones living, the greatness and reality of their loss.

Not even such an event as his marriage was allowed to interfere⁸ with his work. His travels in the North had been in a great measure described in detail from day to day, as he stopped for food and rest, and when he left Stockholm for Germany, a large pile of manuscript had accumulated, which needed correction and arrangement before being sent to his publishers in New York. To this he

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