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EVENTS

Henrik Ibsen marries and becomes creative director of Oslo 's National Theater.

Charles Baudelaire 's study on Théophile Gautier is published in ''Revue contemporaine''.

John Ruskin meets Rose La Touche .

NEW BOOKS

'' Arne '' - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

'' Doctor Thorne '' - Anthony Trollope

''Fanny'' - Ernest-Aimé Feydeau

'' Heckington '' - Catherine Gore

'' A House Of Gentlefolk '' - Ivan Turgenev

'' Memoir Of Joseph Curtis '' - Catharine Maria Sedgwick

'' The Minister's Wooing '' - Harriet Beecher Stowe

'' The Sad Fortunes Of The Rev. Amos Barton '' - George Eliot

POETRY

Matthew Arnold - ''Merope''

Alphonse Daudet - ''Les Amoureuses''

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - '' The Courtship Of Miles Standish ''

William Morris - ''The Defence of Guinevere, and other Poems''

NON-FICTION

William H. Prescott - ''History of Philip II'', volume 3

Alfred Russel Wallace - ''On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type''

BIRTHS

January 22 - Beatrice Webb , political writer, wife and collaborator of Sidney Webb

March 12 - Adolph Ochs , newspaper publisher

April 15 - Émile Durkheim , sociologist

June 25 – Georges Courteline , dramatist and novelist (d. 1929 )

July 24 - Wolfgang Kapp , journalist

August 3 - Paul Sabatier , religious writer

November 20 - Selma Lagerlöf Swedish writer (+ 1940 )

''date unknown'' - Sir Owen Morgan Edwards , historian and educator (+ 1920)

''date unknown'' - William Watson , poet

DEATHS

January 15 - Louisa Cranstoun Nisbett ("Miss Mordaunt"), actress

February 13 - Hermann Heinrich Gossen , economist

February 26 - Thomas Tooke , economist

May 3 - Julien Auguste Pélage Brizeux , poet

May 12 - Georg Benedikt Winer , theologian

May 17 - Frank Forester , novelist and sports writer

June 3 - Edward Moxon , poet and publisher

June 28 - Jane Marcet , author of science textbooks

November 15 - Johanna Kinkel , writer and composer, wife of Gottfried Kinkel

''date unknown'' - Harriet Taylor Mill , philosopher

''date unknown'' - Robert Stephen Rintoul , journalist

AWARDS