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EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

'' The Watchman '' (periodical) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

''A Letter to a Noble Lord'' - Edmund Burke

''Camilla'' - Fanny Burney

'' Hermsprong or Man as He is Not'' - Robert Bage

''Memoirs of My Life and Writings'' - Edward Gibbon

''The Monk'' - Matthew Lewis

NEW DRAMA

''Egmont'' - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

BIRTHS

January 4 - Henry George Bohn , publisher

September 19 - Hartley Coleridge

July 15 - Thomas Bulfinch , American author

DEATHS

February 17 - James Macpherson , poet

May 6 - Adolf Freiherr Knigge , writer on etiquette

July 21 - Robert Burns

October 7 - Thomas Reid , philosopher

AWARDS