This item is the July 2, 1870 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 good condition, with only a few nicks and a few age spots, but nothing serious.  The pages are clean and bright for a publication of this age.  Additional pictures are available upon request, please send your e-mail address.

ARTICLES:

THE DEATH OF CHARLES DICKENS:  Feb. 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870 – Charles Dickens has been so lately with us in person, has occupied so large a place in our minds and hearts these thirty years, through his writings, that it is something difficult to realize that his voice is hushed forever, and that the wand, whose magic passed away with unloosening of his grasp, has fallen irrecoverably from the great magician’s hand.

THE DERBY RACE:  We present a double page engraving of the race, designed by Mr. Basil Bradley, and an article, which describes the scene of the race. (See picture)

THE LEGEND OF LA BREA:  A poem by Charles Kingsley.  This myth about the famous Pitch Lake of Trinidad was told almost for word to a M. Joseph by an aged half-caste Indian, who went by the name Senior Trinidada.  The manners and customs which the ballad describes, and the cruel and dangerous destruction of the beautiful birds of Trinidad, are facts which may be easily verified by any one who will take the trouble to visit the West Indies.

LITTLE EM’LY:  Engraved by Mr. Eytinge.  In the preface to the latest edition of “The personal History and Experience of David Copperfield the Younger”, Charles Dickens wrote these words: “Of all my books, I kike this one the best.  It will be easily believed that I am a fond parent to every child of my fancy, and that no one can ever love that family as dearly as I love them. But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child.  And his name is David Copperfield. (See picture)

A SEA-TOWN:  A poem by an anonymous writer.

AN ARTIST’S TRADGEDY:  by Thomas Adolphus Trollope – The house in question is the home which Andrea del Sarto built for himself, and in which he lived and painted and died.  And those who have read Browning’s most suggestive poem on “The Perfect Painter” do not need to be told that the dwelling started on its three hundred years’ experience of human vicissitudes by witnessing one of those domestic tragedies which are none the less tragic because their catastrophe accomplishes itself without the intervention of bowl or dagger.”

MODERN ATHENS:  We show a full page engraving of what modern Athens is, and a few ruined temples remain to show us what ancient Athens was.

IN LATE AUTUMN:  A poem by Charles Denys Conway

LIFE ON MARS:  In a book far more entertaining than any modern novel Mr. Proctor has given us, amongst a number of other studies of the worlds in physical conditions widely different from that of our own, a chapter of the highest interest on “Mars the Miniature of our Earth.”

HOW THE WIND BLOWS IN BARBADOES:  Barbadoes has a history of devastating hurricanes, October 10, 1780 a storm devastated the island for three days; August 11, 1831 another similar scourge; and now a report of another scourge on August 11, 1869. 

THE LION HUNT:  Engraved from the painting by Francis Snyders is a fine specimen of his master.  One of the great Flemish School of Painters which made Antwerp famous, Snyders was born in that city in 1579, and was a contemporary and friend of Vandyck, Jordeans, and Rubens.

GARDEN WORK – BEDDING-OUT:  Cover engraving – Any one who wishes to get his full measure of enjoyment out of his garden should do the gardening more or less himself.  (See picture)

PRETTY WOMEN:  Speaking of pretty women, the Saturday Review asks:  “After all, is the is the world so very absurd in its love of pretty women?  Is woman so very ridiculous in her chase after beauty?  A pretty woman is doing woman’s work in the world, not making speeches nor making puddings, but making life sunnier and more beautiful.”

ON BOARD THE CAMBBRIA:  The clever marine engraving represents the deck of the English yacht Cambria during the late race with the Sappho. (See picture)

THE THIEVES QUARTERS IN ENGLAND:  There is a thief-criminal quarter in every large English town.  It is a locality avoided by most honest people who are aware of its existence, and into which few will enter except through ignorance, necessity, or criminal intention.

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