by George Washington Cable

1902. Cable, American short-story writer and novelist, is known for his tales dealing with the Creoles of New Orleans. Bylow Hill begins: The old street, keeping its New England Sabbath afternoon so decently under its majestic elms, was as goodly an example of its sort as the late seventies of the century just gone could show. It lay along a north-and-south ridge, between a number of aged and unsmiling cottages, fronting on cinder sidewalks, and alternating irregularly with about as many larger homesteads that sat back in their well-shaded gardens with kindlier dignity and not so grim a self-assertion. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.