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LIST OF AUTHORS, VOL. V.

(WITH PRONUNCIATION.)

Caballero (kä bäl yā'ro), (Fernan), see

Faber, Cecilia Böhl von.

Cable (kā'bl), George Washington.
Cadmon (kad'mon).

Cæsar (sē zär), Caius Julius.

Caine (kān), Thomas Henry Hall.
Caird (kard), Mona (Alison).
Cairnes (kārnz), John Elliott.
Calderon (kal'de ron; Sp. pron. käl dā
rōn'), de la Barca, Pedro.
Calhoun (kal hön'), John Caldwell.
Callimachus (ka lim'a kus).
Callistratus (ka lis'tra tus).

Calverley (kal'ver li), Charles Stuart.
Calvert (kal'vért), George Henry.
Calvin (kal'vin), John.

Camden (kam'den), William.
Cameron (kam'e ron), Verney Lovett.
Camoens (kam'ō ens), Luis de.

Campan (kon pon'), Jeanne Louise Henriette (Genest).

Campbell (kam'bel), Alexander.
Campbell, George.

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Canning (kan'ing), George.

Candolle (kon dol'), see De Candolle.

Cantù (kän tö'), Cesare.

Capel (kap'el), Thomas John.
Carducci (kar doot'chee), Giosuè.
Carew (ka rö'), Thomas.
Carey (kā'ri), Henry Charles.
Carey, Matthew.

Carlén (kär län'), Emilia Flygare.
Carleton (kärl'ton), Will.

Carleton, William.

Carlisle (kär lil'), Earl of.

Carlyle (kär lil'), Jane Welsh.
Carlyle, John Aitkin.

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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.
Chadwick (chad'wik), John White.
Chalmers (cha’merz), Thomas.
Chambers (cham'berz), Robert and
William.

Chamisso (shä mēs'sō), Adelbert von.
Champollion (sham pol'i on;
Fr. pron.
shon pol yôn'), Figeac Jean Jacques.
Champollion, Jean François.
Channing (chan'ing), Edward T.
Channing, Walter.

Channing, William Ellery.

Channing, William Ellery 2.
Channing, William Francis.
Channing, William Henry.
Chapin (cha'pin), Edwin Hubbell.
Chapman (chap'man), George.
Chapone (shä pōn'), Hester.

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.
Chaucer (châ'ser), Geoffrey.
Cheever (che'ver), George Barrell.
Cheever, Henry Theodore.
Chénier (sha nya'), André-Marie de.
Cherbuliez (shar bü lya'), Victor.
Chesterfield (ches'ter feld), Earl of.
Chiabrera (kē ā brā ́rä), Gabriello.

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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

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