LIST OF AUTHORS, VOL. V. (WITH PRONUNCIATION.) Caballero (kä bäl yā'ro), (Fernan), see Faber, Cecilia Böhl von. Cable (kā'bl), George Washington. Cæsar (sē zär), Caius Julius. Caine (kān), Thomas Henry Hall. Calverley (kal'ver li), Charles Stuart. Camden (kam'den), William. Campan (kon pon'), Jeanne Louise Henriette (Genest). Campbell (kam'bel), Alexander. Canning (kan'ing), George. Candolle (kon dol'), see De Candolle. Cantù (kän tö'), Cesare. Capel (kap'el), Thomas John. Carlén (kär län'), Emilia Flygare. Carleton, William. Carlisle (kär lil'), Earl of. Carlyle (kär lil'), Jane Welsh. Castiglione (käs tēl yō'ne), Baldassare. Catherwood (kaTH'er wůd), Mary (Hartwell). Catlin (kat'lin), George. Cato (kā'tō), Marcus Porcius Priscus. Cats (käts), Jakob. Catullus (ka tul'us), Caius Valerius. Caxton (kaks'ton), William. Cellini (chel lē'nē), Benvenuto. Centlivre (sent liv'er or sent lē'ver), Susannah. Cervantes Saavedra (sér van'tēz; Sp. pron. ther vän'tes sä ä vä'drä), Miguel de. Chadbourne (chad'bern), Paul Ansel. Chamisso (shä mēs'sō), Adelbert von. Channing, William Ellery. Channing, William Ellery 2. Charles (chärlz), Elizabeth (Rundle). Chasles (shäl), Victor Euphémion Philarète. Chateaubriand (shä tō brē on'), François René. Chatfield-Taylor (chat' feld-ta'lor), Horace Chatfield. Chatterton (chat'er ton), Thomas. CABLE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, an American novelist, was born in New Orleans, October 12, 1844. His father dying when the boy was about fifteen years of age, he left school and became a clerk in a store; and in 1863 he enlisted as a Confederate volunteer in the Fourth Mississippi cavalry. He was wounded, and, returning to New Orleans, became an errand-boy in a store. He studied continually, as he had done while in the army; and having acquired a knowledge of civil engineering, he went from place to place in connection with a surveying party. On the Atchafalaya he caught the "break-bone" fever, which left its lingering reminders upon him for a couple of years. Then he began to send criticisms and humorous papers and poems to the Picayune, signing himself "Drop Shot;" and soon he was engaged as an editor. Amid all the vicissitudes of fortune he had maintained his religious integrity, and had scrupulously followed the dictates of conscience; and when he was asked to furnish theatrical reports for the paper, he resigned and went to keeping books for a cotton dealer. In 1879, being left by his employer's death without employment, and having already met with success in the publication of sketches of creole life in The Century, he determined to depend upon his pen for support. He also lectured successfully, reading |