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EVENTS

June 26 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of laws degree from Oxford University .

James Joyce meets Ettore Schmitz for the first time.

NEW BOOKS

'' Benoni '' — André Billy

'' The City Of Pleasure '' — Arnold Bennett

'' Dead Love Has Chains '' — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

'' The Hill Of Dreams '' — Arthur Machen

'' Kind Hearts And Coronets '' — Roy Horniman

'' The Longest Journey '' — E. M. Forster

'' Madame De Treymes '' — Edith Wharton

'' My Lady Caprice '' — Jeffery Farnol

'' Not George Washington '' — P. G. Wodehouse

'' The Overman '' — Upton Sinclair

'' Le Peuple Du Pôle '' — Charles Derennes

'' The Secret Agent '' — Joseph Conrad

'' The Seven Ages Of Washington '' — Owen Wister

'' The Shepherd Of The Hills '' — Harold Bell Wright

'' Songs Of A Sourdough '' — (poetry) Robert W. Service

'' The Tale Of Tom Kitten '' — Beatrix Potter

NEW DRAMA

Georges Feydeau - ''Une puce à l'oreille ( A Flea In Her Ear )''

John Millington Synge - '' The Playboy Of The Western World ''

NON-FICTION

George Witton - '' Scapegoats Of The Empire ''

BIRTHS

February 1 - Günter Eich , West German lyricist (d. 1972 )

February 3 (probable) - James A. Michener , US novelist (d. 1997 )

February 21 - W. H. Auden , English poet (d. 1973 )

May 12 - Leslie Charteris , ''The Saint'' author (d. 1993 )

May 13 - Daphne Du Maurier , Cornish writer (d. 1989 )

May 27 - Rachel Carson , US author of''Silent Spring'' (d. 1964 )

July 7 - Robert A. Heinlein , US author (d. 1988 )

August 17 - Roger Peyrefitte , French author (d. 2000 )

August 28 - Rupert Hart-Davis , British editor and publisher (d. 1999 )

September 23 - Pauline Réage , French erotic novelist (d. 1998 )

October 15 - Varian Fry , US journalist (d. 1967 )

November 14 - Astrid Lindgren , Swedish author of children's books (d. 2002 )

November 27 - L. Sprague De Camp , American sci-fi and fantasy author (d. 2000 )

November 28 - Alberto Moravia , Italian novelist (d. 1990 )

December 10 - Rumer Godden , English novelist (d. 1998 )

December 18 - Christopher Fry , English dramatist (d. 2005 )

DEATHS

January 20 - Agnes Mary Clerke , English author on astronomy (b. 1842 )

March 9 - Frederic George Stephens , Englishart critic and member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (b. 1828 )

April 23 - André Theuriet , French poet and novelist (b. 1833

May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans , French author (b. 1848 )

July 17 - Hector Malot , French author (b. 1830 )

July 19 - William Gunion Rutherford , Scottish classical commentator (b. 1853 )

September 6 - Sully Prudhomme , French poet and essayist; 1st Nobel Prize winner (b. 1839 )

September 7 - Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu , Romanian philologist (b. 1836 )

October 6 - David Masson , Scottish critic and biographer (b. 1822 )

November 1 - Alfred Jarry , French dramatist (b. 1873 )

November 28 - Stanislaw Wyspianski , Polish dramatist, poet and painter (b. 1869 )

AWARDS