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EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

'' The Charterhouse Of Parma '' - Stendhal

'' Deerbrook '' - Harriet Martineau

'' Diary In America '' - Frederick Marryat

'' The Fall Of The House Of Usher '' - Edgar Allan Poe

'' Jack Sheppard '' - William Harrison Ainsworth

'' Marianna '' - Jules Sandeau

'' Nicholas Nickleby '' - Charles Dickens

'' The Phantom Ship '' - Frederick Marryat

'' The Voyage Of The Beagle '' - Charles Darwin

POETRY

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - ''Hyperion''; ''Voices of the Night''

NON-FICTION

Louis Blanc - ''L'Organisation du Travail''

Jared Sparks - ''Life of Washington ''

BIRTHS

January 7 - Ouida , novelist (+ 1908)

February 1 - James Herne , dramatist (+ 1901)

February 22 - Francis Pharcellus Church , American editor and publisher (+ 1906 )

April 18 - Henry Kendall , Australian poet (+ 1882 )

June 21 - Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis , Brazilian poet and novelist (+ 1909)

August 4 - Walter Horatio Pater , English writer (+ 1894 )

August 9 - Gaston Paris , philologist (+ 1903)

August 25 - Bret Harte (+ 1902)

September 10 - Charles Peirce , philosopher (+ 1914)

November 29 - Ludwig Anzengruber , dramatist (+ 1889)

DEATHS

April 11 - John Galt , novelist

May 17 - Archibald Alison (Scottish Author)

May 21 - José María Heredia Y Campuzano , Cuban poet

September 4 - Hermann Olshausen , theologian

AWARDS