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EVENTS

Arthur Schopenhauer adds a chapter on "The Metaphysics of Sexual Love" to the third edition of his ''The World as Will and Representation''.

Lewis Carroll takes up photography as a hobby.

William Henry Smith first makes the claim that the author of Shakespeare's plays was Sir Francis Bacon .

Richard Francis Burton serves in the army in the Crimean War and becomes engaged to Isabel Arundel.

Alphonse Daudet begins his teaching career.

NEW BOOKS

'' Adam Bede '' - George Eliot

'' The Piazza Tales '' - Herman Melville

''Cinco Minutos'' - José De Alencar

'' The Daisy Chain '' - Charlotte Mary Yonge

'' The Dead Secret '' - Wilkie Collins

'' Dred, A Tale Of The Great Dismal Swamp '' - Harriet Beecher Stowe

'' Ernest Linwood '' - Caroline Lee Hentz

'' I And My Chimney '' - Herman Melville

''It's Never Too Late to Mend'' - Charles Reade

''Die Leute von Seldwyla'' - Gottfried Keller

''Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag'' - Eduard Mörike

'' The Sorrows Of Gentility '' - Geraldine Jewsbury

'' The Young Fur-Traders '' - RM Ballantyne

NEW DRAMA

Henrik Ibsen - ''The Banquet at Solhaug''

POETRY

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - '' Aurora Leigh ''

Victor Hugo - ''Les Contemplations''

NON-FICTION

J. A. Froude - ''History of England''

Rudolf Lotze - ''Mikrokosmos''

Alexis De Tocqueville - ''L'Ancien régime et la révolution''

BIRTHS

February 14 - Frank Harris , journalist, publisher and memoirist (+ 1931)

April 5 - Booker T. Washington (+ 1915 )

May 15 - L. Frank Baum , ''Wizard of Oz'' author (+ 1919 )

July 25 - Charles Major (+ 1913 )

July 26 - George Bernard Shaw , dramatist (+ 1950 )

DEATHS

January - James Baillie Fraser , travel writer

February 17 - Heinrich Heine , poet

June 11 - Friedrich Heinrich Von Der Hagen , philologist

June 26 - Max Stirner , philosopher

June 27 - Joseph Meyer , publisher

July 21 - Emil Aarestrup , poet

July 29 - Karel Havlíček Borovský , poet, critic and publisher

August 24 - William Buckland , antiquarian

August 30 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett , humorous writer

October 13 - Robert Christie , historian and journalist

November 10 - Johann Kaspar Zeuß , historian

''date unknown'' - Pyotr Chaadaev , philosopher

''date unknown'' - Josef Kajetán Tyl , dramatist and author of the Czech national anthem

AWARDS