He looks back upon the bygone days as a time when "nuthin' warn
too good for niggers," and is sure that if his young "marster" did not get
the brush "twuz cause twuz a bob-tailed fox." In _Meh Lady_ the negro
relating the tale is the true but unconscious hero. This kindly
presentation of the finest traits of slave days, the idealizing of the
characters, and the sympathetic portrayal of the warm affection existing
between master and slave give to Page's books a strong note of romanticism.
The humor is mild, quaint, and subtle, and it often lies next to tears.
Page is preeminently a short-story writer. He possesses the restraint, the
compression, the art, the unity of idea necessary to the production of a
good short story.
GEORGE W. CABLE, 1844-
[Illustration: GEORGE W. CABLE]
George Washington Cable is of Virginia and New England stock, but he was
born in New Orleans in 1844, and called this beautiful city his home until
1884, when he moved to Connecticut. The following year he selected
Northampton, Massachusetts, as a permanent residence. He was but fourteen
when his father died, leaving the family in straitened circumstances. The
boy thereupon left school and went to work.
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