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EVENTS

The first of several chapters of '' I Am A Cat '' (吾輩は猫である) by Natsume Sōseki are published Serial ly in '' Hototogisu ''.

NEW BOOKS

'' A Diary From Dixie '' - Mary Boykin Chesnut

'' Heretics '' - G. K. Chesterton

'' The House Of Mirth '' - Edith Wharton

'' The Invasion Of The Sea '' - Jules Verne

'' King Leopold's Soliloquy '' - Mark Twain

'' Kipps '' - H.G. Wells

'' The Lake '' - George Moore (novelist)

'' The Lighthouse At The End Of The World '' - Jules Verne

'' A Little Boy Lost '' - W. H. Hudson

'' A Little Princess '' - Frances Hodgson Burnett

'' The Marriage Of William Ashe '' - Mary Augusta Ward

'' Orthodoxy '' - G. K. Chesterton

'' Queen Zixi Of Ix '' - L. Frank Baum

'' The Return Of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

'' The Saint '' - Antonio Fogazzaro

'' The Scarlet Pimpernel '' - Baroness Orczy

'' A Waif's Progress '' - Rhoda Broughton

'' Where Angels Fear To Tread '' - E.M. Forster

'' White Fang '' - Jack London

NEW DRAMA

Harley Granville-Barker - '' The Voysey Inheritance ''

Sacha Guitry - ''Nono''

BIRTHS

January 31 - John O'Hara , writer (d. 1970 )

February 2 - Ayn Rand , author (d. 1982 )

February 7 - Paul Nizan , author (d. 1940 )

February 11 - Elizabeth Vuyk , Dutch/Indonesian writer.

May 16 - H. E. Bates , novelist

May 20 - Gerrit Achterberg , Dutch poet

June 20 - Lillian Hellman , dramatist

July 25 - Elias Canetti , novelist

September 5 - Arthur Koestler , novelist and social philosopher

October 15 - C. P. Snow , novelist

November 11 - Erskine Hamilton Childers , President of the Republic Of Ireland , 1973-74

November 30 - John Dickson Carr , crime writer

December 4 - Munro Leaf , children's author

December 21 - Anthony Powell , British novelist, (d. 2000 )

''date unknown'' - Idris Davies , Anglo-Welsh poet

DEATHS

January 19 - Debendranath Tagore , philosopher

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March 20 - Antonin Proust , journalist

March 25 - Jules Verne , author

May 23 - Mary Livermore , journalist

August 22 - David Binning Monro , expert on Homer

September 18 - George MacDonald , author

October 28 - Alphonse Allais , humorist

December 3 - John Bartlett , publisher

December 9 - Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb classical commentator

December 12 - William Sharp , poet, biographer and novelist

December 29 - Creeve Roe , poet

''date unknown'' - R. C. Lehmann , editor of ''Punch'' magazine

AWARDS