Events New Books The Chevalier of the Maison Rouge - Alexandre Dumas, père The Children of the Night - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The Devil's Pond - George Sand Memoirs of a Physician - Alexandre Dumas, père Pictures from Italy - Charles Dickens Poor People - Fyodor Dostoevsky The Privateersman - Frederick Marryat The Redskins - James Fenimore Cooper Typee - Herman Melville Weekdays - Mór Jókai Births April 4 - Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer (+ 1870) May 5 - Henryk Sienkiewicz Polish novelist (+ 1916) Deaths July 12 - Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, novelist Awards