Events New Books La Bas - Joris-Karl Huysmans Diary of a Pilgrimage - Jerome K. Jerome Esther Vanhomrigh - Margaret L. Woods The Great Taboo - Grant Allen The Little Minister - J. M. Barrie The New Grub Street - George Gissing Peter Ibbetson - George Du Maurier Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy Timoleon - Herman Melville Two Penniless Princesses - Charlotte Mary Yonge Unknown to History - Charlotte Mary Yonge The White Company - Arthur Conan Doyle The World, the Flesh and the Devil - Mary Elizabeth Braddon Births December 26 - Henry Miller, writer Deaths August 12 - James Russell Lowell, poet September 15 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian writer September 28 - Herman Melville, author October 15 - Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, writer November 10 - Arthur Rimbaud, poet Awards