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NEW BOOKS

'' Agnes Grey '' - Anne Brontë

'' Castles In The Air '' - Catherine Gore

'' The Children Of The New Forest '' - Frederick Marryat

'' Jane Eyre '' - Charlotte Brontë

'' Martin The Foundling '' - Eugène Sue

'' Omoo '' - Herman Melville

''Le Péché de M. Antoine'' - George Sand

'' The Seven Deadly Sins '' - Eugène Sue

'' The System '' - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna

'' Tancred '' - Benjamin Disraeli

'' Vanity Fair '' - William Makepeace Thackeray

'' William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave '' - William Wells Brown

'' Wuthering Heights '' - Emily Brontë

POETRY

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - '' Evangeline ''

NON-FICTION

William H. Prescott - ''History of the Conquest of Peru''

BIRTHS

April 10 - Joseph Pulitzer , newspaperman (+ 1911 )

September 22 - Alice Meynell , poet (+ 1922)

November 8 - Bram Stoker , writer (+ 1912 )

DEATHS

May 4 - Alexandre Vinet , critic and theologian

September 16 - Grace Aguilar , novelist

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