Events New Books The Ambassador's Wife - Catherine Gore The Black Sheep - Honore de Balzac Consuelo - George Sand Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol Handy Andy - Samuel Lover The Mysteries of Paris - Eugène Sue The Overcoat - Nikolai Gogol Percival Keene - Frederick Marryat Le Rhin - Victor Hugo The Two Admirals - James Fenimore Cooper Zanoni - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Births February 4 - Arrigo Boito, poet (+ 1918) February 25 - Karl May, writer (+ 1912) June 24 - Ambrose Bierce (+ 1914) Deaths Charlotte Dacre, author March 23 - Stendhal, writer Awards