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EVENTS

Friedrich Schiller introduces his new play, '' Wilhelm Tell ''

Samuel Taylor Coleridge appointed Acting Public Secretary in Malta

NEW BOOKS

'' The Bravo Of Venice '' - Matthew Gregory Lewis

'' The Child Of The Abbey '' - Sophia Woodfall

'' The Chronicles Of Christabelle De Mowbray '' - Elizabeth Helme

'' Confessions Of The Nun Of St. Omer '' - Charlotte Dacre

'' Gondez The Monk '' - William Henry Ireland

'' The Modern Griselda '' - Maria Edgeworth

'' My Master's Secret '' - R. P. M. Yorke

'' The Nuns Of The Desert '' - Eugenia De Acton

'' The Pilgrims Of The Cross '' - Elisabeth Helme

'' Rameau's Nephew '' - Denis Diderot

'' A Sailor's Friendship, And A Soldier's Love '' - Anna Maria Porter

'' The Saracen '' - Sophie Ristaud Cottin

'' Villa Nova '' - Catherine Selden

'' The Witcheries Of Craig Isaf '' - William Frederick Williams

'' The Witches Of Glenshiel '' - Mary Julia Young

'' The Wonder Of The Village '' - Mary Meeke

NEW DRAMA

Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval - ''Le Menuisier de Livonie''

POETRY

Sir Walter Scott - '' The Lay Of The Last Minstrel ''

Sir Martin Archer Shee - ''Rhymes on Art''

Robert Southey - ''Madoc''

NON-FICTION

Hosea Ballou - ''A Treatise on Atonement''

Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl Of Liverpool - ''Treatise on the Coins of the Realm''

BIRTHS

February 4 - William Harrison Ainsworth , novelist (+ 1882 )

April 2 - Hans Christian Andersen , writer (+ 1875 )

July 29 - Alexis De Tocqueville , writer (+ 1859 )

August 29 - Frederick Maurice , theologian and novelist

December 23 - Joseph Smith, Jr. , founder and prophet of the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints

DEATHS

March 29 - Jean Elliot , Scottish poet

May 9 - Friedrich Schiller , German playwright

May 25 - William Paley , philosopher

June 18 - Arthur Murphy , who wrote as "Charles Ranger"

July 27 - Brian Merriman , Irish language poet

August 3 - Christopher Anstey , poet

September 3 - Johann Martin Abele , publisher

AWARDS