Excerpt from The Scribner Treasury: 22 Classics Tales

Shortly after Madame Delphine appeared in 1881, Laf cadio Hearn commented on Cable's genius for recreation of a past era: The author must have made many a pil grimage to study the wrinkled faces of the houses, or perhaps to read the queer names upon the signs - as Balzac loved to do in old-fashioned Paris. Hearn here put his finger on the two factors which in¿uenced Cable's writing in the greatest degree, French literary models and an antiquarian bent.

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