A VENERABLE STORY-TELLER
Jules Verne, the venerable story writer, has recently celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. Born at Nantes on Feb. 8, 1823, he has lived to produce what- is probably a larger number of novels than any of his / contemporaries. In 6ome of his flights of imagination he has come pretty near to foreseeing actual fact. His wonderful submarine vessel, the Nautilus, anticipated our modern submarine, and his airship, the Albatross, foreshadowed the recent achievement of JM. .Santos Dumo-hb. Jules Verne has of late years suffered from an affection of the eyes, and at one time feared total blindness, but he is fortunately still able to continue bis labours, and hopes ere long to complete his hundredth. book.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7680, 15 April 1903, Page 2
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