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EVENTS

'' Who's Who '' is published for the first time.

NEW BOOKS

''Alton Locke'' - Charles Kingsley

'' David Copperfield '' - Charles Dickens

'' The Diamond And The Pearl '' - Catherine Gore

'' The Lancashire Witches '' - William Harrison Ainsworth

'' Little Fadette '' - George Sand

'' Mardi '' - Herman Melville

'' Memoirs From Beyond The Grave '' - François-René De Chateaubriand

'' On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience '' - Henry David Thoreau

'' The Oregon Trail '' - Francis Parkman

'' Redburn '' - Herman Melville

''The Rifle Rangers'' - Mayne Reid

'' Shirley '' - Charlotte Brontë

'' Freedom And Necessity '' - Steven Brust and Emma Bull

NEW DRAMA

Christian Friedrich Hebbel - ''Der Rubin''

Eugène Scribe - ''Adrienne Lecouvreur''

POETRY

Matthew Arnold - ''The Strayed Reveller''

NON-FICTION

John Mitchell Kemble - ''History of the Saxons in England''

BIRTHS

January 22 - August Strindberg , Swedish writer (d. 1912 )

August 23 - William Henley , British poet (d. 1903 )

November 24 - Frances Hodgson Burnett writer (d. 1924 )

DEATHS

January 6 - Hartley Coleridge , poet and critic

February 8 - France Prešeren , poet

May 22 - Maria Edgeworth , writer

May 28 - Anne Brontë , writer

July 7 - Goffredo Mameli , poet

July 25 - James Kenney , dramatist

October 7 - Edgar Allan Poe , author

AWARDS