This item is the March 4, 1871 issue of EVERY SATURDAY a weekly newspaper that was published in Boston by James Osgood and Company.  It was similar to the New York newspapers Harper's Weekly, and Frank Leslie, all of which were highly illustrated with wood engravings.  Every Saturday is a rare newspaper, because it had a much smaller circulation.  Earlier Boston newspapers, Gleason's Pictorial, which later became Ballou's Pictorial, were also similar in content, in that they provided historical news of current events, and art and literature.  This issue is in very good condition.  The pages are very clean and bright.  Additional pictures are available upon request, please send your e-mail address.

ARTICLES:

HON. CHARLES SUMNER:  The Massachusetts Senator will be remembered for his service during the years 1855 to 1875 as a prominent figure in these great days of agitation and war and reconstruction.  A portrait is of this prominent man is engraved on the cover of this issue.

THE SUNDAY QUESTION:  The words “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath,” have such a seminal force, that they unfold, comprehend, and define the whole subject.

PICTURESQUE RAMBLES IN PROVINCIAL FRANCE:  THE STATUE OF JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS; CHARTRES CATHEDRAL; THE LANTERN, CHAMBORD; THE CHATEAU DE CHAMBORD (front and back pictures):  The first advance of the German armies in the Franco-Prussian War towards the west of France began, as every one remembers, with the march of Von der Tann upon Orleans, France.

ICE BOATS ON THE HUDSON:  Our engraving gives the reader a good idea of an amusement that has been very popular this winter on the Hudson River.  A rivalry exists between the boating association at Poughkeepsie and a similar association at New Hamburgh, New York.  A lively engraving is given on these pages. (See picture)

ARRIVAL OF A PIGEON IN PARIS:  A few weeks since the sight of a pigeon fluttering over the city was one that threw the Parisians into the greatest state of excitement, as they have been reduced to such absolute dependence on aerial messengers for communication with or from their fellow countrymen.  This engraving shows a person chasing the pigeon on the rooftop with a excited crowd gathered below. (See picture)

THE TAKING OF PITTSBURGH by Ralph Keeler and Harry Fenn.  An account of their travels from New York to Pittsburgh. An illustrated story with four engravings

ON THE WAY TO PITTSBURGH, - GREAT BEND ON THE ALLEGHENIES; THE SOLITARY INHABITANT OF KITTANNING; THE INDIGNANT WAITER; AND SAVED (See picture showing how the train that they were traveling upon was saved from destruction.)

THE MARQUIS DE VILLEMER: A fictional story by George Sand.

ENGISH PITS AND PITMEN, - THE NIGHT SHIFT: A full page engraving depicting life in England in the1870’s.

THE FISHERMAN’S DARLING:  We present an engraving drawn by Mr. Watson.  A critic recently said “It is curious that we who are so proud of our seafaring population, and are wont to regard them as the raw material out of which our naval glory has been manufactured, should have been so long blind to their picturesque aspect.” (See picture)

THE SEASONS:  A poem by William Morris

AT THE PAWNBROKERS:  A full-page engraving drawn by S. Eytinge, Jr., an amusing scene of a young gentleman negotiating for his watch, while a woman sits smiling in the corner. (See picture)

THE USES OF WEALTH:  The Baron de Tremont, who bequeathed the sum of twenty thousand francs to the French Academy, the interest of which, a thousand francs, was to be annually given as a “prize of virtue” to the rich man who, during the year, had made the best use of his riches. 

A VOICE FROM THE HOUSE TOPS:  In New York the pitch-roof is an exception, and whenever it occurs it is an architectural abomination.  It offends the eye, ruins the shape of the attic-room, causes perpetual leaks, and in winter, perils the life of the people in the street.

ALICE CARY:  She must always occupy a foremost place among the best female poets of America.  Though she wrote too much, and consequently not always at her best, her poetical gift was genuine, and she has left us many poems not unworthy of the epoch which produced Mrs. Browning and jean Ingelow.

THE LONDON CONFERENCE ON THE BLACK SEA QUESTION AT THE ENGLISH FOREIGN OFFICE.  Present in the engraving are Hon. William Stuart, Earl Granville, Count D’Apponyi, Count Bernstotff, Musurus Pasha, Cavaliere Cadorna, Baron de Brunnow.  Prince Gortchakoff startled England by proclaiming that Russia was no longer going to be bound by the treaty of 1856. (See picture)

ALEXANDRE DUMAS AND AUGUSTE MARQUET:  The controversy over whether Mr. Dumas is actually the author of all the books attributed to his name, or whether the publishers used his name more freely than was intended.

A VIEW OF PARIS FROM ST. GERMAINS:  The terrace from it’s manifest advantage, has been the watch-tower of many a correspondent during the late sorties of the Franco-Prussian War.  It is just out of the range of Mont Valerien, and the spectators could thus in perfect safety follow the intricate maneuvers of the armies below.  A telescope was placed on the roof of the pavilion by the Prussians to decry any unusual movement on the part of the besieged.  (See picture)

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