MAX ORELL DEAD.

Evening Star, Issue 11896, 26 May 1903, Page 7

MAX ORELL DEAD.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 25. Max 0 Hell, author, is dead; aged fiftyfive years. known to the world as Max 0 ReU, was bom in Brittany in 1848, and educated in Paris, where he graduated 8.A., in 1865. He served in the r ranco-Prussiai War, and was made a prisoner at Sedan. He fought against the Commune, was Severely wounded, pensioned, and went to England, where he became a newspaper correspondent, and mbsequently senior French master at St. Pauls School, a position he resigned in 1884. In 1883 he published his famous book ‘Johu Bull and His Island,’ which took London and Paris by storm, and was translated into many European and Asiatic languages. All his books, of which he wrote many, were written in French and translated into English by his wife. He started lecturing in the late eighties, and in 1891 he made a lecturing tour of twp years’ duration round the world, delivering some 450 lectures in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Sonth Africa. His lectures in the Princess’s Theatre, Dunedin, will be remembered by many.]