Books with author George Washington Cable

Unabridged version of “Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation,” by George Washington, offered here for chump change.Copied out by hand, Washington’s “Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation,” were maxims by which proper people should be influenced. Included here are copies of Washington’s original pages, and translations of the rule.Read from his young hand. Ponder the rules of revolutionary American culture. Apply some to your life.Table of Contents History of Washington and the 110 Rules 3Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation 6Image of rules 1-12 9Image of rules 13-24 14Image of rules 25-31 18Image of rules 32-42 22Image of rules 43-53 26Image of rules 54-63 30Image of rules 64-75 34Image of rules 76-87 38Image of rules 88-103 42

A few steps from the St. Charles Hotel, in New Orleans, brings you to and across Canal Street, the central avenue of the city, and to that corner where the flower-women sit at the inner and outer edges of the arcaded sidewalk, and make the air sweet with their fragrant merchandise. The crowd—and if it is near the time of the carnival it will be great—will follow Canal Street. But you turn, instead, into the quiet, narrow way which a lover of Creole antiquity, in fondness for a romantic past, is still prone to call the Rue Royale. You will pass a few restaurants, a few auction-rooms, a few furniture warehouses, and will hardly realize that you have left behind you the activity and clatter of a city of merchants before you find yourself in a region of architectural decrepitude, where an ancient and foreign-seeming domestic life, in second stories, overhangs the ruins of a former commercial prosperity, and upon every thing has settled down a long sabbath of decay. The vehicles in the street are few in number, and are merely passing through; the stores are shrunken into shops; you see here and there, like a patch of bright mould, the stall of that significant fungus, the Chinaman. Many great doors are shut and clamped and grown gray with cobweb; many street windows are nailed up; half the balconies are begrimed and rust-eaten, and many of the humid arches and alleys which characterize the older Franco-Spanish piles of stuccoed brick betray a squalor almost oriental.

George Washington Cable (October 12, 1844 – January 31, 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called "the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century, as well as the first modern southern writer."[1] In his treatment of racism, mixed-race families and miscegenation, his fiction has been thought to anticipate that of William Faulkner. He also wrote articles critical of contemporary society. Due to hostility against him after two 1885 essays encouraging racial equality and opposing Jim Crow, Cable moved with his family to Northampton, Massachusetts. He lived there for the next thirty years, then moved to Florida.

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Strange True Stories Of Louisiana by George Washington Cable George Washington Cable (October 12, 1844 – January 31, 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called "the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century, as well as the first modern southern writer." In his treatment of racism, mixed-race families and miscegenation, his fiction has been thought to anticipate that of William Faulkner. He also wrote articles critical of contemporary society. Due to hostility against him after two 1885 essays encouraging racial equality and opposing Jim Crow, Cable moved with his family to Northampton, Massachusetts. He lived there for the next thirty years, then moved to Florida.

He was an American Founding Father and the new nation’s first president, but before that, GEORGE WASHINGTON (1732–1799) was an excruciatingly correct child with a passion for propriety. At the age of 14, he copied out 110 rules for elegant deportment from a work created by Jesuits in the 16th century as a guide for young gentleman of quality, and through these rules, which he took greatly to heart, we can see the beginnings of the man Washington would become taking shape. Though many of the rules deal with matters of etiquette—such as whom should rise for whom in mixed company—many others concern far deeper matters that touch on personal philosophies about judgment, honor, success, and conscience. As a peek into the manners of a bygone age, this is an intriguing work. As a peek into a great man in his formative years, this is an extraordinary one.

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A few steps from the St. Charles Hotel, in New Orleans, brings you to and across Canal Street, the central avenue of the city, and to that corner where the flower-women sit at the inner and outer edges of the arcaded sidewalk, and make the air sweet with their fragrant merchandise. The crowd—and if it is near the time of the carnival it will be great—will follow Canal Street.

THE CABLE STORY BOOK. Selections for School Reading, with the Story of the Author's Life. Edited by Mary E. Burt and Lucy Leffingwell Cable. This volume is from 1899. No illustrations are included in this Kindle version. The Cable Story Book has been prepared in response to a revival of interest in Mr. Cable's works among his early admirers, as well as to the newly awakened enthusiasm of a younger audience and the urgent demand from various sources for selections from his books for school-readers. Southern life and Southern history have never heretofore been well represented in school reading. The Adirondacks, the Catskills, and the Hudson have become enchanted regions to school students through the works of Washington Irving, John Burroughs, and Charles Dudley Warner. Hawthorne has created an American Wonderland in New England. Longfellow has brought Grand Pre and all Acadia into the schoolroom through Evangeline, and he has interpreted Indian life to us through Hiawatha; but the great balmy South, with its "endless colonnades of cypresses, — long motionless drapings of gray moss, — and constellations of water-lilies," has been a matter of dry geographical statistics, and not the land of song. To read Cable is to live in the South, to bask in its sunshine, eat of its figs and pomegranates, and dream its dreams. No other writer has so recorded its pulse-beats. This book comes to fill a great gap, to furnish the interpretation of a wide district of our country before unrepresented in our schools. For these reasons the stories are pre-eminently profitable school reading. Then, Cable's way of placing what is vital in character before the child's mind (I might better say the child's heart), at the same time that he bends down the boughs of the magnolia or orange-tree to regale him with its sweet odors, is transcendent. The child breathes in the very atmosphere of the South, but, what is of more significance, he breathes in the virtue and nobility of the writer. In no case have I ever edited a book for schools where I have felt more deeply the importance of the work. It has been a matter of the most enthusiastic pride with me. This book is one that I love. A country is sweet and beautiful and worthy of our patriotic devotion only as far as it is the home of noble souls. Those of our writers who have portrayed its natural beauty and illuminated what is heroic in its commonplaces, in a way to endear the very ground to our feet, deserve the first recognition in our schools. I have spoken only of the needs of the schools of our own country; but I have often observed in book-stores and at book-stalls in England and Scotland that of the few American writers who receive acknowledgment there, Mr. Cable's books always stand side by side with Hawthorne's, Longfellow's, Burroughs', and Howells'. As I travelled through those countries last summer, wherever I went I met constant mention and praise of Mr. Cable's stories as he had read them among all classes. Chapters: - The Children's New Orleans - The Story of Bras-Coupe - Jeanah Poquelin - New Orleans before the Capture - Gregory's Island - The Story of the Author's Life

Saturday, April, 1852. There was a fervor in the sky as of an August noon, although the clocks of the city would presently strike five. Dazzling white clouds, about to show the earliest flush of the sun’s decline, beamed down upon a turbid river harbor, where the water was deep so close inshore that the port’s unbroken mile of steamboat wharf nowhere stretched out into the boiling flood. Instead it merely lined the shore, the steamers packing in bow on with their noses to it, their sterns out in the stream, their fenders chafing each other’s lower guards. New Orleans was very proud of this scene. Very prompt were her citizens, such as had travelled, to remind you that in many seaports vast warehouses and roofed docks of enormous cost thronged out so greedily to meet incoming craft that the one boat which you might be seeking you would find quite hidden among walls and roofs, and of all the rest of the harbor’s general fleet you could see little or nothing. Not so on this great sun-swept, wind-swept, rain-swept, unswept steamboat levee. You might come up out of any street along that mile-wide front, and if there were a hundred river steamers in port a hundred you would behold with one sweep of the eye. Overhead was only the blue dome, in full view almost from rim to rim; and all about, amid a din of shouting, whip-cracking, scolding, and laughing, and a multitudinous flutter of many-colored foot-square flags, each marking its special lot of goods, were swarms of men—white, yellow, and black—trucking, tumbling, rolling, hand-barrowing, and "toting" on heads and shoulders a countless worth of freight in bags, barrels, casks, bales, boxes, and baskets. Hundreds of mules and drays came and went with this same wealth, and out beyond all, between wharf and open river, profiled on the eastern sky, letting themselves be unloaded and reloaded, stood the compacted, motionless, elephantine phalanx of the boats.

George Washington spent time analyzing and collecting rules that he felt constituted decent behavior. His 110 rules include such gems as “Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another, though he were your enemy” and “Labor to keep alive in your breast that little celestial fire called conscience.” Promotes gentility and provides an interesting glimpse into our beloved founding father. Includes historical information of how these rules came about.