Events Futabatei Shimei writes Drifting Clouds, the first modern novel in Japan. New Books Allan Quatermain - H. Rider Haggard Cut by the County - Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Deemster - Hall Caine Un dilemme, En Rade - Joris-Karl Huysmans Drifting Clouds - Futabatei Shimei Jess - H. Rider Haggard Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson La Terre - Emile Zola She - H. Rider Haggard A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle Thelma - Marie Corelli Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy Births February 1 - Charles Nordhoff, author (+ 1947) February 3 - Georg Trakl, poet (+ 1914) February 11 - John van Melle, South African writer February 18 - Nikos Kazantzakis, poet (+ 1957) March 3 - Rupert Brooke, poet March 14 - Sylvia Beach, publisher June 2 - Orrick Johns, poet & playwright September 1 - Blaise Cendrars, writer (+ 1961) Deaths Awards
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