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EVENTS

Novelist Fritz Reuter is freed from the fortress of Dömitz after two years' imprisonment on a charge of high treason.

NEW BOOKS

'' Colomba '' - Prosper Mérimée

'' A Hero Of Our Time '' - Mikhail Lermontov

'' The Hour And The Man '' - Harriet Martineau

'' The Old Curiosity Shop '' - Charles Dickens

'' Olla Podrida '' - Frederick Marryat

'' Otho The Archer '' - Alexandre Dumas, Père

'' Poor Jack '' - Frederick Marryat

'' I Promessi Sposi - Alessandro Manzoni

'' Les Rayons Et Les Ombres '' - Victor Hugo

'' Tales Of The Grotesque And Arabesque '' - Edgar Allan Poe

'' The Tower Of London '' - William Harrison Ainsworth

'' Two Years Before The Mast '' - Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

'' Valentine Vox '' - Henry Cockton

NEW DRAMA

Christian Hebbel - ''Judith''

Jose Zorilla - ''El Zapatero y el Rey''

POETRY

Mikhail Lermontov - '' The Novice ''

NON-FICTION

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - '' What Is Property? ''

Alexis De Tocqueville - '' Democracy In America '' (vol. 2)

BIRTHS

January 18 - Henry Austin Dobson , English author

April 2 - Emile Zola , writer (+ 1902 )

June 2 - Thomas Hardy , novelist (+ 1928 )

November 29 - Rhoda Broughton (+ 1920

DEATHS

January 6 - Fanny Burney , novelist

AWARDS