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EVENTS

First publication of the ''Daily News'', edited by Charles Dickens.

NEW BOOKS

'' The Chevalier Of The Maison Rouge '' - Alexandre Dumas, Père

'' The Children Of The Night '' - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

'' Cousin Bette '' - Honoré De Balzac

'' La Dame De Montsoreau '' - Alexandre Dumas, Père

'' The Devil's Pond '' - George Sand

'' Memoirs Of A Physician '' - Alexandre Dumas, Père

'' Poor People '' - Fyodor Dostoevsky

'' The Privateersman '' - Frederick Marryat

'' The Redskins '' - James Fenimore Cooper

'' Typee '' - Herman Melville

'' Weekdays '' - Mór Jókai

POETRY

Gottfried Keller - ''Gedichte''

Edward Lear - ''Book of Nonsense''

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - ''The Belfry of Bruges''

NON-FICTION

Hans Christian Andersen - ''Fairy Tale of My Life'' (autobiography)

Charles Dickens - '' Pictures From Italy ''

Theodor Waitz - ''Grundlegung der Psychologie (Foundation of Psychology)''

William Whewell - ''Elements of Morality''

BIRTHS

April 4 - Comte De Lautreamont , French poet and writer (+ 1870 )

May 5 - Henryk Sienkiewicz Polish novelist (+ 1916 )

May 25 - Naim Frashëri , Albanian poet

DEATHS

January 6 - Lewis Goldsmith , journalist

February 9 - Henry Gally Knight , author of "Oriental tales"

July 12 - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna , novelist

December 13 - Pasquale Galluppi , philosopher

''date unknown'' - Harriette Wilson , memoirist

AWARDS