A Yorkshireman's Trip to the United States and Canada

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...He subsequently studied civil engineering, and followed the profession for some time, and afterwards he was a book-keeper for several years, and also a clerk in a cotton firm. In 1877, he left this employment and sent forth his first work, Old Creole Days, and at once established his reputation as a novelist. Since that time many able works have appeared from his pen, notably Dr. Sevier, Madame Delphine, The Grandissimes, along with stories for the magazines. Mr. Cable has also been a most successful lecturer, in company with Mark Twain, each reading in turn to crowded and delighted houses in almost all parts of America, selections from their own writings. Mr. C. has never visited England, but he may rely upon receiving a warm welcome should he decide to come on a lecturing tour in the Old World, where his writings are as well known as are those of almost any other of his countrymen. Mr. Cable is good as well as gifted. He is a constant worker in the church, allowing nothing to interfere with his Sunday School and Bible Classes, and in all his books a religious tone is observable, for he is not afraid or unable to give a reason for the faith that is in him. We had conversation on matters literary and bookish, and the time passed away all too quickly, for I would fain have enjoyed for some time longer the society of this happy family. Mr. C. accompanied me for some distance on my way to the railway station, pointing out the beauties of the scenery, and anon descanting on the merits of some of our best living English writers. Leaving Northampton, the train passes Mount Tom on the left, and Mount Holyoke on the right, the line running between the river and the long range of Mount Tom, until the...