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NEW BOOKS

'' L'Affaire Clemenceau '' - Alexandre Dumas, Fils

'' Annals Of A Quiet Neighbourhood '' - George MacDonald

'' Armadale '' - Wilkie Collins

'' Chandos '' - Ouida

'' Cradock Nowell '' - Richard Doddridge Blackmore

'' Crime And Punishment '' - Fyodor Dostoevsky

'' Felix Holt, The Radical '' - George Eliot

'' The Gambler '' - Fyodor Dostoevsky

'' Hereward The Wake '' - Charles Kingsley

'' Kapalkundala '' - Bankim Chatterjee

'' The Lerouge Affair '' - Emile Gaboriau

'' Miss Ravenel's Conversion From Secession To Loyalty '' - John William De Forest

'' The Negro In The American Rebellion '' - William Wells Brown

'' Surry Of Eagle's-Nest '' - John Esten Cooke

'' Les Travailleurs De La Mer '' - Victor Hugo

BIRTHS

January 29 - Romain Rolland , Nobel Prize winning author, (+ 1944 )

February 24 - Cyril Arthur Pearson , publisher (+ 1921)

July 28 - Beatrix Potter , Children's Author (+ 1943 )

May 2 - Paul Kretschmer , linguist (+ 1956)

September 7 - Tristan Bernard , writer (+ 1947 )

August 31 - Elizabeth Von Arnim , novelist (+ 1941)

September 21 - H. G. Wells , Science Fiction Novelist (+ 1946 )

November 21 - Dusé Mohamed Ali , political activist, journalist and dramatist (+ 1945)

''date unknown'' - Dora Sigerson Shorter , poet (+ 1918)

DEATHS

January 23 - Thomas Love Peacock , satirist

February 2 - Francois Xavier Garneau , poet and historian

March 6 - William Whewell , philosopher and theologian

March 29 - John Keble , poet

June 16 - Joseph Méry , satirist and librettist

August 1 - Luigi Carlo Farini , historian

August 12 - Philip Stanhope Worsley , poet

September 10 - Charles Maclaren , first editor of '' The Scotsman ''

September 14 - Léon Gozlan , novelist and dramatist

September 19 - Christian Hermann Weisse , philosopher

AWARDS