Events July 4 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published. November 18 - Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press. New Books Alec Forbes of Howglen - George MacDonald Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne Germinie Lacerteux - Edmond de Goncourt Guy Deverell - Sheridan Le Fanu The Humbugs of the World - P. T. Barnum The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Elizabeth Gaskell The Lighthouse - RM Ballantyne Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds - Robert Smith Surtees Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens Births December 30 - Rudyard Kipling (+ 1936) June 13 - William Butler Yeats (+ 1939) Sui-Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) (+ 1914) Deaths February 25 - Otto Ludwig, German novelist/playwright November 12 - Elizabeth Gaskell, writer Awards