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EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

'' The Caged Lion '' - Charlotte Mary Yonge

'' The Eternal Husband '' - Fyodor Dostoevsky

'' The Earthly Paradise '' - William Morris

'' The House Of Life '' (poetry) - Dante Gabriel Rossetti

'' The Hunting Of The Snark '' - Lewis Carroll

'' Lothair '' - Benjamin Disraeli

'' Man And Wife '' - Wilkie Collins

'' The Mystery Of Edwin Drood '' - Charles Dickens

'' An Old Fashioned Girl '' - Louisa May Alcott

'' Red As A Rose Is She '' - Rhoda Broughton

'' The Story Of A Bad Boy '' - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

'' The Terrible Sights Of London '' - Thomas Archer

'' 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea '' - Jules Verne

'' The Vicar Of Bullhampton '' - Anthony Trollope

NEW DRAMA

James Albery - ''Two Roses''

Pietro Cossa - ''Nero''

BIRTHS

March 5 - Frank Norris (d. 1902 )

June 25 - Erskine Childers (d. 1922 )

July 27 - Hilaire Belloc (d. 1953 )

December 18 - Saki (d. 1916 )

DEATHS

February 25 - Henrik Hertz , Danish poet

June 9 - Charles Dickens , British novelist

June 11 - William Gilmore Simms , author

July 20 - Jules De Goncourt , '' Prix Goncourt ''

September 12 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow , American author and explorer

November 4 - Comte De Lautreamont , French poet and writer

December 5 - Alexandre Dumas, Père , author

AWARDS