CABLE, (;EORGE \VAsurNGTON (1844—). An American novelist and writer on social ques tions. He was born in New Orleans, October 12, 1844. On his father's side he is of Vir ginia stock, and on his mother's side of New England ancestry. After scant schooling, Cable became a clerk in New Orleans, and in 1863 en tered the Confederate Army, where he served in the Fourth Mississippi Cavalry. At the close of the war lie became a civil engineer. but malarial fever drove him back to mercantile life and he was employed as accountant in a firm of cotton factors IS79. During this period he wrote for the New Orleans Picayune, under the pseudo nym of Drop Shot. and it was at this date that lie published his first volume of fiction. ((Id Creole bags, a collection of short stories dealing with the then unexploited types of social life in New Orleans and Louisiana. This was followed by The tlrandissimes (1SSO), which is probably his best work : IT wl a nie Itelph ine ( 18S1) ; Dr.
Sevier (15S31; Bona venture (1S5,;) ; •anyr, True Stories of Louisiana (ISSO) ; and, less valu able and interesting. John March. Sou /tern, r ( 1S94). These constitute an original and unique body of fiction. His most recent novels are The (1901) and By/mr Bill (1902). Cable is less popularly known in his more expository books, Crenl,s of Louisiana (1854), The Silent South ( tisl5 and 7'he Yrgro Quest ion (]S90). In 1=.45 Cable removed to New land, living first at Simsbury, Conn., and later at Northampton, Mass. (ISS6). The value of Cable's best work is recognized by all students and critics of American literature, and apprecia tions of his work are to be found in contemporary reviews.