Events Final volume of Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West. The Seagull, a new drama by Anton Chekov New Books The Country of the Pointed Firs - Sarah Orne Jewett L' empreinte - Edouard Estaunie In His Steps: 'What Would Jesus Do?' - Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells Madelon - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Le Médecin des dames de néans - René Boylesve The Mighty Atom - Marie Corelli The Murder of Delicia - Marie Corelli An Outcast of the Islands - Joseph Conrad The Patriot - Antonio Fogazzaro Red Men and White - Owen Wister Rome - Emile Zola Sir George Tressady - Mary Augusta Ward Tales from the Telling House - Richard Doddridge Blackmore Tom Sawyer, Detective - Mark Twain Weir of Hermiston - Robert Louis Stevenson The Well at the World's End - William Morris Ziska - Marie Corelli Births September 24 - F Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (+ 1940) Deaths July 1 - Harriet Beecher Stowe July 16 - Edmond de Goncourt October 8 - George Du Maurier December 10 - Alfred Nobel Awards
Births September 24 - F Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (+ 1940) Deaths July 1 - Harriet Beecher Stowe July 16 - Edmond de Goncourt October 8 - George Du Maurier December 10 - Alfred Nobel Awards