Events\n* Flammarion publishing house founded in Paris, France. \nNew Books\n*Alice Lorraine - Richard Doddridge Blackmore \n*The Brother's Wife - Charlotte Mary Yonge \n*Contes du Lundi - Alphonse Daudet\n*A Foregone Conclusion - William Dean Howells \n*The Goldsmith's Wife - William Harrison Ainsworth\n*History of Twins - Francis Galton \n*Hostages to Fortune - Mary Elizabeth Braddon \n*The Law and the Lady - Wilkie Collins\n*A Raw Youth - Fyodor Dostoevsky\n*Saragossa - Galdos Benito Perez\n*The Survivors Of The Chancellor - Jules Verne\n*Two, by Tricks - Edmund Yates\n*The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope \n*Eight Cousins - Louisa May Alcott \nBirths\n* April 9 – Jacques Futrelle, American author, RMS Titanic victim (d. 1912)\n* September 1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs (+ 1950)\n* August 26 - John Buchan (+ 1940) Deaths\n* August 4 - Hans Christian Andersen \nAwards\n* *