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EVENTS

First edition of the World Almanac published

NEW BOOKS

'' Biarritz '' - Hermann Goedsche

'' Dead-Sea Fruit '' - Mary Elizabeth Braddon

'' Deep Down '' - RM Ballantyne

'' Haunted Lives '' - Sheridan Le Fanu

'' The Idiot '' - Fyodor Dostoevsky

'' Little Meg's Children '' - Hesba Stretton

'' Little Women '' - Louisa May Alcott

'' The Luck Of Roaring Camp '' - Bret Harte

'' The Moonstone '' - Wilkie Collins

'' Robert Falconer '' - George MacDonald

'' Slaves Of Paris '' - Emile Gaboriau

'' Sweet Anne Page '' - Mortimer Collins

BIRTHS

February 23 - W. E. B. Du Bois (+ 1963 )

March 28 - Maxim Gorky , author (+ 1936 )

May 6 - Gaston Leroux , author (+ 1927 )

October 18 - Ernst Didring , Swedish writer (+ 1931 )

DEATHS

March 8 - Jón Thoroddsen Elder , Icelandic author

June 18 - Charles Harpur , Australian poet

September 24 - Henry Hart Milman , historian

October 18 - Mongkut , King of Siam, subject of the memoirs of Anna Leonowens

November 30 - August Blanche , Swedish writer, statesman

AWARDS