See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

GEORGE See also:

• WASHINGTON
• WASHINGTON (or WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE)
• WASHINGTON, BOOKER TALIAFERRO (c. 1859– )
• WASHINGTON, BUSHROD (1762-1829)
• WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799)

WASHINGTON See also:

• CABLE (from Late Lat. capulum, a halter, from capere, to take hold of)
• GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE (1844– )

CABLE (1844– )  See also:

• AMERICAN

American author, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born .in New See also:

• ORLEANS
• ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
• ORLEANS, DUKES OF
• ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
• ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
• ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
• ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
• ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
• ORLEANS, PHILIP I
• ORLEANS, PHILIP II

Orleans, See also:

• LOUISIANA

Louisiana, on the 12th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1844 . At the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of fourteen he entered a See also:

• MERCANTILE (or COMMERCIAL) AGENCIES

mercantile See also:

• ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment as a clerk; joined the Confederate See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army (4th See also:

• MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi See also:

• CAVALRY (Fr. cavalerie, Ger. Kavallerie or Reiterei, derived ultimately from late Lat. caballus, horse)

Cavalry) at the age of nineteen; at the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war engaged in See also:

• CIVIL

civil See also:

• ENGINEERING

engineering, and in newspaper See also:

• WORK

work in New Orleans; and first became known in literature by sketches and stories of old See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French-American See also:

• LIFE

life in that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city . These were first published in Scribner's Monthly, and were collected in See also:

• BOOK

book See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form in 1879, under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Old See also:

• CREOLE (the Fr. form of criollo, a West Indian, probably a negro corruption of the Span. criadillo, the dim. of criado, one bred or reared, from criar, to breed, a derivative of the Lat. creare, to create)

Creole Days . The characteristics of the See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series=of which the novelette Madame Delphine (1881) is virtually a See also:

• PART

part—are neatness of See also:

• TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

touch, sympathetic accuracy of description of See also:

• PEOPLE

people and places, and a See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant See also:

• COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination of See also:

• GENTLE (through the Fr. gentil, from Lat. gentilis, belonging to the same gens, or family)

gentle pathos with quiet See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour . These shorter tales were followed by the novels The Grandissimes (188o), Dr See also:

• SEVIER, JOHN (1745-1815)

Sevier (1883) and Bonaventure (1888), of which the first dealt with Creole life in Louisiana a See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred years ago, while the second was related to the See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of the Civil War of 1861–65 . Dr Sevier, on the whole, is to be accounted See also:

• CABLE (from Late Lat. capulum, a halter, from capere, to take hold of)
• CABLE, GEORGE WASHINGTON (1844– )

Cable's See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master-piece, its See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of Narcisse combining nearly all the qualities which have given him his See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in American literature as an artist and a social chronicler . In this, as in nearly all of his stories, he makes much use of the soft French-See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse)

dialect of Louisiana . He does not confine himself to New Orleans, laying many of his scenes, as in the See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story Belles Demoiselles See also:

• PLANTATION (Lat. plantare, to plant)

Plantation, in the marshy lowlands towards the mouth of the Mississippi . Cable was the See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader in the noteworthy See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement which has influenced nearly all See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern writers since the war of 1861—a movement of which the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief importance See also:

• LAY

lay in the determination to portray See also:

• LOCAL

local scenes, characters and See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical episodes with accuracy instead of merely imaginative romanticism, and to See also:

• INTEREST

interest readers by fidelity and sympathy in the portrayal of things well known to the authors . Other writings by Cable have dealt with various problems of See also:

• RACE

race and politics in the southern states during and after the " reconstruction period " following the Civil War; while in The Creoles of Louisiana (1884) he presented a See also:

• HISTORY

history of that folk from the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of its See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance as a social and military See also:

• FACTOR (from Lat. facere, to make or do)

factor . His dispassionate treatment of his theme in this See also:

• VOLUME

volume and its predecessors gave increasing offence to sensitive Creoles and their sympathizers, and in 1886 Cable removed to See also:

• NORTHAMPTON
• NORTHAMPTON, ASSIZE OF
• NORTHAMPTON, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF

Northampton, See also:

• MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts . At one time he edited a See also:

• MAGAZINE

magazine in Northampton, and afterwards conducted the monthly Current Literature, published in New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York .

His Collected See also:

• WORKS

Works were published in a See also:

• UNIFORM

uniform issue in 5 vols . (New York, 1898) . Among his later volumes are The See also:

• CAVALIER
• CAVALIER, JEAN (1681-1740)

Cavalier (1901), Bylow See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

Hill (1902), and Kincaid's See also:

• BATTERY (Fr. batterie, from battles, to beat)

Battery (1908) .