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Show Verne's Life of Routine. Jules Verne, -author of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,'' required re-quired "no l5iBlative enactment to make him get up early. He rose at four lu the lucrniug. in the summer; and climbed up a sort of watch lower which dominated his house in the Roulevard de Longucville, Amiens, where his study was situated. He I called this room his "cabin." There I he used to work until ten o'clock. In the winter when he awoke he would awaii. daylight, either reading in bed or evolving scenes or hie novels. After lunch it was bis practice to walk along the boulevards, which form a beautiful green cincture around the old Picardy town. Then he would mu!;e for his club and read the newspapers news-papers and study the scientific reviews, re-views, from which he derived great aid In the composition of hia books. |