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The year 1898 in literature involved some significant new books.

EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

Elizabeth Von Arnim - '' Elizabeth And Her German Garden ''

F. W. Bain - '' A Digit Of The Moon ''

Arnold Bennett - '' A Man From The North ''

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - '' Rough Justice ''

Frank T. Bullen - '' The Cruise Of The Cachalot ''

Ralph Connor - ''Black Rock''

Joseph Conrad - '' Tales Of Unrest ''

Stephen Crane - '' The Open Boat And Other Tales ''

Paul Laurence Dunbar - '' The Uncalled ''

J. Meade Falkner - '' Moonfleet ''

John Fox, Jr. - '' The Kentuckians ''

Kenneth Grahame - '' The Reluctant Dragon ''

Anthony Hope - '' Rupert Of Hentzau ''

Joris-Karl Huysmans - '' La Cathedrale ''

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - '' The Cabin ''

Henry James - '' The Turn Of The Screw ''

Jerome K. Jerome - '' The Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow ''

Pierre Louÿs - '' La Femme Et Le Pantin ''

Charles Major - '' When Knighthood Was In Flower ''

George Moore -'' Evelyn Innes ''

Emilio Salgari - '' Il Corsaro Nero ''

Robert Louis Stevenson - '' St. Ives ''

Mary Augusta Ward - '' Helbeck Of Bannisdale ''

H.G. Wells - '' The War Of The Worlds ''

Edward Noyes Westcott - '' David Harum ''

Owen Wister - '' Lin McLean ''

Charlotte Mary Yonge - '' The Armourer's Prentices ''

Emile Zola - '' Paris ''

NEW DRAMA

Gabriele D'Annunzio - ''Sogno di un Pomeriggio d' Autunno''

George Bernard Shaw - '' Arms And The Man ''

NON-FICTION

John F. T. Jane - '' Jane's Fighting Ships ''

Liliʻuokalani - '' Hawaii's Story By Hawaii's Queen ''

BIRTHS

February 6 - Melvin B. Tolson , poet

May 23 - Scott O'Dell , children's author

July 22 - Erich Maria Remarque (d. 1970 )

August 23 - George Papashvily , sculptor and author

September 13 - Arthur J. Burks (d. 1974 )

November 29 - C. S. Lewis (d. 1963 )

December 27 - W. C. Sellar , co-author of ''1066 and All That''

DEATHS

January 14 - Lewis Carroll , children's author

January 18 - Henry Liddell , co-compiler of Liddell & Scott's ''Greek-English Lexicon'', still in use by classical scholars

March 6 - Felice Cavallotti , politician and poet

March 24 - George Thomas Stokes , church historian

March 31 - Eleanor Marx , political writer and translator, daughter of Karl Marx

May 22 - Edward Bellamy , novelist

July 20 - Jean Ingelow , poet and novelist

August 7 - Georg Ebers , novelist and discoverer of the "Ebers manuscript"

August 17 - Sir William Fraser, 4th Baronet , politician, author and book collector

September 9 - Stéphane Mallarmé , Symbolist poet

September 20 - Theodor Fontane , novelist and poet

September 29 - William Kingsford , historian

December 10 - William Black , novelist

AWARDS

Newdigate Prize - John Buchan