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EVENTS

October 24 - Mark Twain moves to Florence .

The first Goncourt Prize for French literature is awarded to John Antoine Nau .

'' The Ambassadors '' by Henry James is serialized in twelve installments, from January to December.

Jack London 's novel '' The Call Of The Wild '' is serialized in the '' Saturday Evening Post ''.

NEW BOOKS

'' The Ambassadors '' - Henry James

'' The Call Of The Wild '' - Jack London

'' Enfant à La Balustrade '' - René Boylesve

'' Force Ennemie '' - John Antoine Nau

'' The Jewel Of Seven Stars '' - Bram Stoker

'' Lady Rose's Daughter '' - Mary Augusta Ward

'' The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come '' - John Fox, Jr.

'' The Pit '' - Frank Norris

'' The Private Papers Of Henry Ryecroft '' - George Gissing

'' The Riddle Of The Sands '' - Robert Erskine Childers

'' Principia Ethica '' - G. E. Moore

'' Said The Fisherman '' - Marmaduke Pickthall

'' The Souls Of Black Folk '' - W. E. B. DuBois

'' The Tale Of Squirrel Nutkin '' - Beatrix Potter

''Thirty Years in Australia'' - Ada Cambridge

'' Typhoon And Other Stories '' - Joseph Conrad

'' Verite '' - Emile Zola

'' The Way Of All Flesh '' - Samuel Butler

'' The Wind In The Rose Bush '' - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

NEW DRAMA

Dusé Mohamed Ali - ''The Jew's Revenge''

BIRTHS

January 7 - Zora Neale Hurston

February 11 - Alan Paton , writer

February 13 - Georges Simenon , Belgian writer

February 22 - Morley Callaghan , Canadian writer

July 10 - John Wyndham , British writer

October 17 - Nathanael West , novelist and screenwriter

DEATHS

January 22 - Augustus Hare , biographer and travel writer

February 8 - Ada Ellen Bayly , novelist

March 6 - Gaston Paris , literary critic and scholar

March 14 - Ernest Legouvé , dramatist

May 25 - Max O'Rell , journalist

April 29 - Paul Du Chaillu , travel writer

July 11 - William Henley , British poet

September 1 - Charles Bernard Renouvier , philosopher

October 4 - Otto Weininger , philosopher

November 1 - Theodor Mommsen , German classical scholar and historian

December 28 - George Gissing , British novelist

AWARDS

for ''Force ennemie''