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EVENTS

George Palmer Putnam and John Wiley form the book publishing and retail firm of Wiley & Putnam in New York City . It is the forerunner of G. P. Putnam's Sons .

NEW BOOKS

'' The Lady Of Lyons '' - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

'' The Lion Of Flanders '' - Hendrik Conscience

'' Mary Derwent '' - Ann Sophia Stephens

'' Munchausen '' - Karl Immerman

'' The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym '' and '' Ligeia '' - Edgar Allan Poe

'' Oliver Twist '' - Charles Dickens

'' Rattling The Reefer '' - Frederick Marryat with Edward Howard

'' Rob Of The Bowl '' - John Pendleton Kennedy

NEW DRAMA

Dion Boucicault - ''A Legend of the Devil's Dyke''

Franz Grillparzer - ''Weh dem der Lugt''

Victor Hugo - '' Ruy Blas ''

POETRY

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - ''The Seraphim and Other Poems''

NON-FICTION

Casanova - ''Memoirs'' (final volume)

Ralph Waldo Emerson - '' The Divinity School Address ''

BIRTHS

June 26 - Bankim Chatterjee (+ 1894 )

July 20 - Augustin Daly , dramatist and theatre manager (+ 1899)

November 7 - Auguste Villiers De L'Isle-Adam , Symbolist writer (+ 1889)

DEATHS

July 12 - John Jamieson , lexicographer

''date unknown'' - Ann Hatton , novelist

AWARDS