Show in spite of the academy while that body of literary sentimentalists known as the french academy refused to gild the beelin ing years of jules verne with an elec tion to the coveted hall of immortals this rarely gifted writer will survive in worldwide appreciation long after the puling poets and itching love anal cysts who rejected him have been for gotten jules verne m as great beyond the line posts of a single country the author of twenty thousand leagues under the sea around the world in eighty davs and half a hundred other delightful books may not meas ure up to the standard of emasculated drivel required by the academy but it must have been a satisfaction to the stricken author to know that the world had placed upon his brow the laurel of success kansas city journal |