Events Alexandre Dumas, fils writes his drama, La Dame aux camélias. Pierre Larousse founded his publishing house in Paris, France New Books Basil: A Story of Modern Life - Wilkie Collins The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne Canadian Crusoes -Catharine Parr Traill The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte - Karl Marx Eoline - Caroline Lee Hentz Henry Esmond - William Makepeace Thackeray Marcus Warland - Caroline Lee Hentz Pierre - Herman Melville Queechy - Susan Bogert Warner Roughing It in the Bush - Susanna Moodie Three Years in Europe - William Wells Brown Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe Births February 24 - George A. Moore, writer (+ 1933) October 31 - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, writer (+ 1930) Edwin Austin Abbey - author Deaths March 4 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian author Awards