Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1900 — Jules Verne. [ARTICLE]

Jules Verne.

In his recently published Memoirs Edmond de Amicis describes a visit he paid to Jules Verne, who showed him a bookcase containing a complete collection of his books, eighty In a#, besides translations of many of them Into most European languages, as well as Arabic and Japanese. “And yet,” said Verne. “I -owe my prosperity not to these books, but to the dramatization of some of them.”