Events Theodore Roosevelt publishes the first of four volumes of The Winning of the West between 1889-1896 New Books Ardath - Marie Corelli Blind Love - Wilkie Collins A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain The Dark Eyes Of London - Edgar Wallace Hale-Weston - Molly Elliot Seawell The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy The Legacy of Cain - Wilkie Collins Micah Clarke - Arthur Conan Doyle Mike Fletcher - George A. Moore The Mystery of Cloomber - Arthur Conan Doyle The Nether World - George Gissing The Sign of the Four - Arthur Conan Doyle Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche Births July 5 - Jean Cocteau, writer July 17 - Erle Stanley Gardner, author (+ 1970) September 23 - Walter Lippmann, writer (+ 1974) Deaths June 15 - Mihai Eminescu, outstanding Romanian poet September 23 - Wilkie Collins, novelist November 18 - William Allingham, Irish poet Awards