Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-11
MT. George w. Cable.
The Southern Novelist in New Haven
 Rare Treat at the Atheneum.

The Southern Novelist in New Havsn-A Rare Treat at the Atheneum. MT. George W. Cable, the gifted Louisiana novelist, delightfully."- entertained 8 very se- lect and cultivated audience at the Atheneum
 last evening. That the reading was a rare
 treat was plainly apparent from the satisfac-
 tion and pleasure speaking from the faces of
 the audience, and MT. Cables reception in
 New Haven, like those he has met with else
 where, was most Aattering. That he is rare
 literary artist and one of ths very first Amer
 ican novelists, his widely-read works attest
 The satisfaction which SO many present last
 evening have felt in reading his works was intensified by hearing from those works
 again, not only because the audience was face to face with the writer, but because he as 8
 wonderfully happy gift for interpreting his characters. The readings of MT. Cable have everywhere elicited admiration, but that the
 verdict was not overdrawn was the sentiment of the audience at the Atheneum last evening"
 Jean Poquelin, Jules St. Ange and Posson Jones lived again before the audience with their varied characteristics, even to the sub
 tie and delicate shades of human nature with which the artist has invested them. Whether he reads as well as Dickens did or not he is cer- tainly the only rival of that great novelist's memory as Apersonstor of his own characters through the medium of reading. He per fectly entertains his audience in whatever he presents. MT. Cable is slight and young looking man of 3S with regular features, the best of which are prominent forehead and brilliant, laugh ing black eyes. A long dropping moustache hides his mouth. His hair is long and straight and black and he wears 8 full beard of the same hue. While one would know that he is an American and might guess his ''section," there is nothing in his features or accent to indicate the conventional South erner." Only Southerner could give the delicious dialect of Posson Jones, the West Floridian preacher, so broad and mellow and rich it is. Then the utterly different, but equally charming brogue of the dainty creole Jules. or as Posson Jones calls him 'Jools" is indescribable on paper. The audience was a fortunate one for the reader because it required 8 quick l sympathy to appreciate the finer shades of humor and pathos. Of the latter there was just enough to qualify the former and it is a | genuine article. Professor Northrop, of | Yale, neatly introduced MT. Cable and oceu- | pied seat on the platform. Among those | present last evening were Professor Benja- l W1n oAhman, 1EoIessor "+l4an U. Wn4tney | and daughter, Professor Lounsbury Hon. | George H. Watrous and lady, Thomas Hook CT, Professor Wayland and wife, F. w. Fellowes and wife, J. B. Sargent. Frank W. Benedict, Dr. S. H. Chapman and wife, Pro- lessor Van Name, John W. filling, T. H. Hooker, Mrs. N. D. Sperry and Mrs. Mar GUS Newton, Mir. and Mrs. George Barnum, Mir. and Mrs. Wilbur F. Day, Attorney Henry Rogers, Mrs. Hilton E. Doolittle, Professor Weir, R. A. Brown, Professor Mark Bailey, Henry E. Peck. Rev. Dr. Hawes and daueh- ter, Hon. c. B. Bowers, Superintendent Dut- ton, c. s. Thompson, the young ladies of Miss Cady's boarding school. MT. Gable left last evening for Boston, where he gives matinee this afternoon. During his stay in this city he was the guest of Dr. Francis Bacon.