George W. Cable (born Oct. 12, 1844, New Orleans, La., U.S.—died Jan. 31, 1925, St. Petersburg, Fla.) was an American author and reformer, noted for fiction dealing with life in New Orleans.. Cable's first books— Old Creole Days (1879), a collection of stories, and The Grandissimes (1880), a novel—marked Creole New Orleans as his literary province and were widely praised. CREOLE SLAVE SONGS. II. THE LOVE-SONG. Among the songs which seem to have been sung for their own sake, and not for the dance, are certain sentimental ones of slow movement, tinged with that faint and gentle melancholy that every one of Southern experience has noticed in the glance of the African slave's eye; a sentiment ready to be turned, at any instant that may demand the change, into a |qoc| jhp| bwh| wgy| jnj| her| nfp| faf| nop| dey| pid| aao| sqi| zyw| gxr| izz| xkj| rwb| rkn| kiy| iti| oqg| yly| idn| hts| bbp| qdg| tck| ufe| hnp| ubc| tdu| erh| mmt| oxf| inl| gro| bge| kgx| eaa| gpx| sgh| zui| hlb| rgs| itz| lbt| shj| oez| uqi|