Events New Books A beginner - Rhoda Broughton At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque - Anatole France Barabbas - Marie Corelli Cap'n Davey's Honeymoon - Hall Caine The Castle of the Carpathians - Jules Verne Catriona - Robert Louis Stevenson Diana Tempest - Mary Cholmondeley The Heavenly Twins - Sarah Grand Jane Field - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Le Docteur Pascal - Emile Zola Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - Stephen Crane The Odd Women - George Gissing The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde The Prince of India - Lew Wallace Why Constantinople Fell - Lew Wallace Births June 13 - Dorothy L. Sayers, author (+ 1957) Deaths April 19 - John Addington Symonds, poet and essayist Awards