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EVENTS

Anton Chekov 's new drama, '' Uncle Vanya ''

NEW BOOKS

'' The Awakening '' - Kate Chopin

'' Blix (novel) '' - Frank Norris

'' The Conjure Woman '' - Charles Waddell Chesnutt

'' Demoiselle Cloque '' - René Boylesve

'' Egri Csillagok '' - Géza Gárdonyi

'' Fécondité '' - Émile Zola

'' Foes In Law '' - Rhoda Broughton

'' Foma Gordyeeff '' - Maxim Gorky

'' The Game And The Candle '' - Rhoda Broughton

'' The Golden Canon '' - G.A. Henty

'' His Darling Sin '' - Mary Elizabeth Braddon

'' McTeague '' - Frank Norris

'' The Man With The Twisted Lip '' - Arthur Conan Doyle

'' A Message To Garcia '' - Elbert Hubbard

'' Old Chester Tales '' - Margaret Deland

'' Red Pottage '' - Mary Cholmondeley

'' Resurrection '' - Leo Tolstoy

'' The Sky Pilot '' - Ralph Connor

'' The School And Society '' - John Dewey

'' La Terre Qui Meurt '' - René Bazin

'' To London Town '' - Arthur Morrison

'' Dom Casmurro '' - Machado De Assis

NEW DRAMA

Leon Kobrin - ''Minna or, The Ruined Family from Downtown''

BIRTHS

January 17 - Nevil Shute , novelist

February 23 - Erich Kästner , children's author

March 25 - Jacques Audiberti (d. 1965)

April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov , novelist (d. 1977 )

May 8 - Friedrich Hayek , social scientist

July 21

--- Ernest Hemingway , novelist (d. 1961 )

--- Hart Crane , poet (d. 1932)

August 9 - P. L. Travers , ''Mary Poppins'' author

November 10 - Kate Seredy , children's author

December 16 - Noel Coward , playwright (d. 1973 )

DEATHS

February 10 - Archibald Lampman , poet

March 16 - Alexander Balloch Grosart , literary editor

May 16 - Francisque Sarcey , journalist and theatre critic

June 7 - Augustin Daly , dramatist and theatre manager

July 18 - Horatio Alger, Jr.

August 29 - Catharine Parr Traill , English-born author of "Canadiana"

October 25 - Grant Allen , author

December 22 - Dwight L. Moody , preacher and publisher

AWARDS