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EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

'' The Bostonians '' - Henry James

'' Clipper Of The Clouds '' - Jules Verne

'' The Danvers Jewels '' - Mary Cholmondeley

'' The Death Of Ivan Ilyich '' - Leo Tolstoy

'' Disperato '' - Leon Bloy

'' Doctor Cupid '' - Rhoda Broughton

'' A Drama In Muslin '' - George A. Moore

'' Eva Futura '' - Philippe Villiers

'' The Evil Genius '' - Wilkie Collins

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

'' The Guilty River '' - Wilkie Collins

'' The Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow '' - Jerome K. Jerome

'' Indian Summer '' - William Dean Howells

'' Jo's Boys '' - Louisa May Alcott

'' Little Lord Fauntleroy '' - Frances Hodgson Burnett

''Married I-II'' (short stories) - August Strindberg

'' The Mayor Of Casterbridge '' - Thomas Hardy

'' Robur The Conqueror '' - Jules Verne

'' A Romance Of Two Worlds '' - Marie Corelli

'' A Son Of Hagar '' - Hall Caine

'' The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde '' - Robert Louis Stevenson

'' Thus Spoke Zarathustra '' - Friedrich Nietzsche

NEW DRAMA

Anton Chekhov - ''On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco''

W. B. Yeats - '' Mosada ''

NON-FICTION

Edwin Abbott Abbott - ''The Kernel and the Husk''

William Morris - ''A Dream of John Ball''

BIRTHS

January 14 - Hugh Lofting , author (+ 1947 )

September 8 - Siegfried Sassoon

September 20 - Charles Williams , British author and member of the Inklings

DEATHS

May 15 - Emily Dickinson

AWARDS