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EVENTS

The Little, Brown And Company publishing house opens its doors.

First publication of the '' The United States Magazine And Democratic Review .''

NEW BOOKS

'' Adele '' - Julia Kavanagh

'' Cesar Birotteau '' - Honoré De Balzac

'' Crichton '' - William Harrison Ainsworth

'' Falkner '' - Mary Shelley

'' Henrietta Temple '' - Benjamin Disraeli

'' Live And Let Live '' - Catharine Maria Sedgwick

'' Lost Illusions '' - Honoré De Balzac

'' Nick Of The Woods '' - Robert Montgomery Bird

'' Only A Fiddler '' - Hans Christian Andersen

'' Snarleyyow '' - Frederick Marryat

'' Venetia '' - Benjamin Disraeli

NEW SHORT STORIES

Nathaniel Hawthorne - '' Twice-Told Tales ''

Victor Séjour - '' Le Mulâtre '', the earliest known work of African-American fiction

POETRY

Alphonse De Lamartine - ''Chute d'un ange''

NON-FICTION

Bernard Bolzano - ''The Philosophy of Logic''

Thomas Carlyle - '' The French Revolution, A History ''

Harriet Martineau - '' Society In America ''

William H. Prescott - ''The History of Ferdinand and Isabella''

BIRTHS

March 1 - William Dean Howells , writer (+ 1920 )

March 6 - Sully Prudhomme , poet (+ 1907 )

April 5 - Algernon Charles Swinburne , English poet (+ 1909 )

December 10 - Edward Eggleston , novelist and historian

DEATHS

January 29 - Aleksandr Pushkin , poet (killed in a duel)

February 12 - Ludwig Börne , political writer and satirist

June 14 - Giacomo Leopardi , poet

AWARDS