This item is the February 18, 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.  In 1871 Every Saturday was expanded from a 16 page newspaper, which was common at that time, to a 24 page newspaper, thus providing for more articles and additional engravings.

This issue is in very good condition.  The pages are very clean and bright, except for a few age spots at the edge of the pages.  Additional pictures are available upon request, please send your e-mail address.

ARTICLES:

GETTING BREAKFAST FOR THE OLD MAN:  Long acquaintance with the varied phases of Southern life has enabled Mr. W. Sheppard to represent Southern scenes and characters with remarkable success.  Our cover engraving is one of the most felicitous. (See picture)

THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF ADVOCATES:  The correspondence of Mr. David Dudley Field with Mr. Samuel Bowles, of the Springfield Republican, has been published by the latter in a pamphlet form, under the general title of “Lawyer and his Clients.”

THE TEST OF FRANCE:  As we look back over the campaign of the Franco-Prussian War, we see that it has been merely the rigorous development, with Euclid-like presicion, of two military premises; First, Prussia was ready to take the field with at least two soldiers to one of France’s; and, secondly, Prussia’s were the better soldiers.

WHAT KIND OF A TREATY DO WE WANT?:  The Motley correspondence, the appointment of General Schenck as Minister to Great Britain, and sundry rumors respecting the reopening of negotiations on the Alabama claims question have recently turned the public mind to the consideration of the kind of settlement of that question which is desirable and likely to be attained.

PICTURESQUE RAMBLES IN PROVINCIAL FRANCE:  The following engravings are here printed: “Church at Le Mans”, “The Cathedral, Le mans”, “Romanesque Tower at Fontevrault”, “The Cloisters, Fontevrault”, “The Royal Tombs, Fontevrault.  Before the Franco-Prussian war laid waste the fairest provinces of France there was no country where a holiday tourist could find more pleasant ground for a quiet, peaceful, summer ramble.

PARIS SKETCHES:  THE ASPECT OF THE BOULEVARDS, AND TRANSPORTING WOUNDED BY RIVER STEAMERS, ON THE CANAL DE LA MARNE, TO THE PARIS AMBULANCES.  These two engravings show a change has come over Paris.  Such busy scenes as he represents are probably of rare occurrence at this present moment.  Hostilities have ceased.

SOMETHING ABOUT SHORT HAND REPORTERS:  The many possibilities for employment and the noted personages of this profession.

CONCERNING BATS:  Spallanzani discovered that when bats were allowed to fly around a room, they could avoid threads stretched across it.  Dr. Schobl, of Prague confirmed this in a separate experiment.  Cuvier, Leydig, and Krause have examined bats or peculiar nerve endings, and their results are here published.

THE TRIBUNE’S BULLETIN-BOARD, - READING THE NEWS:  Mr. Etytinge has drawn a scene of a bulletin board of a leading daily news.  The public interest in the French-Prussian war has hardly been less keen, and the crowd that gathered about the “Tribune” when the surrender of Paris was announced, fairly expressed the feeling of the whole American people at this great historic event.

JOSEPH JEFFERSON AS RIP VAN WINKLE:  The white haired, bright-eyed personage whose portrait appears in these pages, is familiar all over the world.  The genius of three minds at least has combined in his creation; a genial humorist shadowed him forth in a story, a clever artist gave him form in a series of pictures, and a great actor has given him life. (See picture)

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

THE ECLIPSE EXPEDITION; THE ECLIPSE AS SEEN FROM XERES BY THE AMERICAN EXPEDITION, THE POLARISCOPE OBSERVATIONS, AND THE SPECTROSCOPE OBSERVATIONS:  We print three engravings of the eclipse which excited so great interest in the scientific world and which has added so little to our previous knowledge of the phenomenon.

NIGHT ASCENT OF A BALLON, CHEMIN DE FER DU NORD, PARIS:  Our engraving was of course made before the virtual capitulation of the French capital.  We print them as they properly belong to the series depicting the events of the siege of Paris.

BROAD VERSUS NARROW GAUGE:  The New York Commercial Advertiser enters upon the discussion of a question, which is just now occupying the attention of our railroad men.  Should the railroads build smaller gauge cars, which use less fuel, or larger gauge cars to be able to haul larger loads.

THE GERMANS IN ORLEANS – FRIENDLY ADVANCES:  An engraving depicting a scene at Christmas time, when three German soldiers try to offer friendship to unwilling Frenchmen.  (See picture)

THE HUMORS OF THE SEIGE:  Now that the siege, of Paris, has ended, during the Franco-Prussian War, and the inpouring of provisions and supplies of all kinds has closed the period of universal distress and suffering, we shall not be deemed heartless in devoting an article entirely to the humorous phases of the siege.

BALLOONING:  The practical and inventive way they were used during the Franco-Prussian War.

GLOUCESTER, AND SCENES ALONG CAPE ANN:  The Old Fort; Ten Pound Island Light; Cape Ann Lights; The City of Gloucester; Perils of In Shore Fishing; Off For The Banks; On The Coast, a collage of scenes drawn by Mr. Kilburn.

MINOT’S LEDGE LIGHTHOUSE BY MOONLIGHT:  An engraving drawn by G. Perkins.  The lighthouses of the United States are unsurpassed by any in the world.  The most noted is that of Minot’s Ledge off the coast of Massachusetts. (See picture)

AT THE MORGANS’:  A fictional Story.

PIETY, PRUDENCE, AND CHARITY, AND THE MODERN CHRISTIAN:  The picture by the English artist, Mr. Sidney Hall, shows a soldier in conversation with three Sisters of Charity, who have left their nunnery to minister to the needs of the sick and wounded. It is similar to the passage from “Pilgrim’s Progress” which was suggested to Mr. Hall by the sight of the Knight of Malta holding discourse with the three Sisters.

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