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EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

'' Anne Of Avonlea '' — Lucy Maud Montgomery

'' Ann Veronica '' — H.G. Wells

'' Balthazar '' — Anatole France

'' Daphne '' — Mary Augusta Ward

'' La Derive '' — André Billy

'' L'Enchanteur Pourrissant '' — Guillaume Apollinaire

'' Fraternity '' — John Galsworthy

'' La Jeune Fille Bien élevée '' — René Boylesve

'' The Outcast Manufacturers '' — Charles Hoy Fort

'' The Promise Of American Life '' — Herbert Croly

'' The Song Of Songs '' — Hermann Sudermann

'' Tono-Bungay '' — H.G. Wells

'' The White Prophet '' — Hall Caine

NEW DRAMA

John Galsworthy - ''Strife''

POETRY

John Millington Synge - ''Poems and Translations''

BIRTHS

January 29 - Phoebe Hesketh , British poet (d. 2005 )

February 24 - August Derleth , anthologist

March 28 - Nelson Algren , novelist

April 8 - John Fante , novelist

May 9 - Robert Garioch , poet (d. 1981 )

June 6 - Sir Isaiah Berlin , philosopher

June 28 - Eric Ambler , novelist

July 1 – Juan Carlos Onetti , Uruguayan writer (d. 1994 )

July 28 - Malcolm Lowry , British novelist

July 30 - C. Northcote Parkinson , British historian and author

Miep Gies , Anne Frank friend, biographer

DEATHS

March 24 - John Millington Synge , dramatist and poet

March 27 (probable) - John Davidson , poet

April 12 - Algernon Charles Swinburne , British poet

April 26 - Marcus Dods , theologian

May 18 - George Meredith , novelist and poet

June 11 - Jacob Gordin , dramatist

December 14 - Frederick Greenwood , journalist

AWARDS