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Jules Verne, novelist and seer

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Title: Review of reviews and world's work

Year: 1890 (1890s)

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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp

Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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nt of railroad commissioner of his Statewould abundantly prove it. Not alone was thepost of chairman of the commission less remu-nerative than that of Senator, but to withdrawfrom Washington to Austin to undertake thearduous lal)or of organizing a system whichshould curb the rapacity of the roads of the Statemight well have deterred the hardiest. And yetthe Senator, despite his seventy-two years, tookup the burden and carried it to a most success-ful ending. After ten years of this exactingroutine he retired to his home and began—a la-bor which had been, alas ! all too long neglected—his Memoirs. Happily, when the final sum-mons came, the written record was complete. Up to the very last. Judge Reagan never lostinterest in politics, though he came to be moreand more pessimistic over the trend of eventsNevertheless, optimism had always boon with hima religious principle, and of none could it be bettersaid : he was one who Never dreamed, thoughright were worsted, wrong would triumph.

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JULES VERNE, NOVELIST AND SEER. JULES VERNE, who died at Amiens, France, on March 24, at the age of seventy seven, has been described as a story-teller who made science live even as the elder Dumas gave life to history. His was an imagination that predicted the semi-miraculous without jarring too severely the readers sense of the probable. No other writer of fiction has anticipated so many practical inventions. We of this generation have lived to see submarine navigation accomplished, but men who are now gray can recall the spell under which as boys they followed the marvelous adventures of Captain Nemo in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Round the World in Eighty Days is no longer an astounding title, since the journey has been made in even shorter time. Five Weeks in a Balloon (written in 1862) foreshadowed the dirigible flying-machines of the twentieth cen-tury. Among the more important of his stories, in addition to the three already mentioned, are The Giant Raft ; or. Eight Hundred Leagu

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