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EVENTS

Horace Greeley begins publication of the '' New York Tribune ''.

'' Punch '' magazine is founded in London.

NEW BOOKS

'' Adventures Of A Coxcomb '' - Catherine Gore

'' Barnaby Rudge '' - Charles Dickens

'' The Bronze Horseman '' (poem) - Alexander Pushkin

'' Charles O'Malley '' - Charles Lever

'' Conformity '' - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna

'' The Deerslayer '' - James Fenimore Cooper

'''' (poem) - Mikhail Lermontov

'' Falsehood And Truth '' - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna

'''' - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna

'' Joseph Rushbroo '' - Frederick Marryat

'' Master Humphrey's Clock '' - Charles Dickens

'' Masterman Ready '' - Frederick Marryat

'' Mathilde '' - Eugène Sue

'' The Murders In The Rue Morgue '' - Edgar Allan Poe

'' Night And Morning '' - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

'' Old St. Paul's '' - William Harrison Ainsworth

'' Season In Paris '' - Catherine Gore

'' Susan Hopley '' - Catherine Crowe

'' A Shady Business '' - Honoré De Balzac

'' Uli Der Knecht '' - Jeremias Gotthelf

NEW DRAMA

Dion Boucicault - ''London Assurance''

Robert Browning - '' Pippa Passes ''

POETRY

James Russell Lowell - ''A Year's Life''

NON-FICTION

Thomas Carlyle - ''On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History''

Ralph Waldo Emerson - ''Essays''

Ludwig Feuerbach - ''Das Wesen des Christentums (The Essence of Christianity)''

BIRTHS

February 28 - Jean Mounet-Sully , actor († 1904 )

May 22 - Catulle Mendès , poet († 1909 )

June - Hermann Eduard Von Holst , historian († 1904)

August 4 - William Henry Hudson , naturalist and author († 1922 )

August 18 - Robert Williams Buchanan , author († 1901 )

October 6 - Clement Scott , critic and travel writer († 1916 )

November 8 - John Charles Dent , journalist and historian († 1888 )

November 13 - William Black , novelist († 1898 )

DEATHS

April - James Browne , journalist and critic

May 7 - Thomas Barnes , editor of '' The Times ''

May 20 - Joseph Blanco White , poet and theologian

July 27 - Mikhail Lermontov , poet

August 11 - Johann Friedrich Herbart , philosopher

September 16 - Thomas John Dibdin , dramatist

October 31 - Georg Anton Friedrich Ast , philologist and philosopher

December 12 - Denis-Luc Frayssinous , theologian

AWARDS