This item is the April 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 very good condition the pages are very clean and bright for a publication of this age.  Additional pictures are available upon request please send your e-mail address.

ARTICLES:

PARIS GOSSIP:  For many a year past we have nor been favored with such fine weather for our Carnival, and the physical emancipation from frost, snow, and east wind, added to moral freedom from the cares and worries of the Irreconciliables, made us feel as if suddenly restored to the peace and prosperity we used to consider our own at this time of year during the reign of Louis Philippe.

THE BRACKEN BOAT:  In the West Highlands, where straw is always scarce, the fern, or bracken, is a more important article; and growing in abundance on the hillsides, is the litter generally in use among the small farmers and cotters. The engraving from the painting of Mr. Hamilton Macallum is a common scene in autumn, on the west of Skye. (See picture)

TORQUAY:  We present an engraving “The Strand” and morning promenade in the Paignton Road, at Torquay, a famous English watering place. (See picture)

ASCENT OF SNOWDON:  A poem by an anonymous writer.

HEINE:  A critical article concerning the new book written by Heinrich Heine.

A GRAVE BESIDE A STREAM:  A poem by Hugh MacMillan.

MRS. BANWELL’S LEGACY:  A fictional story.

A FACE:  A poem by an anonymous writer.

THE FRENCH STAGE:  There is an obsolete journal of fashion called La Belle Assemblee, which contains descriptions, not only of various and elaborate modes of costume, but also of the favorite forms of diversions of its time.  The reader may find an article on the recreations of Paris, which gives an account of the Theatre Francais, and especially of the audience at the rise of the curtain.

GREAT EATERS:  The Wiltshire boors who lately had an eating match against time probably never heard about Hercules, Ulysses, or Milo; therefore did not know that their achievement had been far outdone.

PASSENGERS ENBARKING AT LIVERPOOL:  An engraving from the sketch by A. Boyd Houghton, which shows the confusion and inconvenience attending the embarkation of passengers at Liverpool.

STOKE-HOLE OF THE CITY OF BRUSSELS:  Another engraving from a sketch by A. Boyd Houghton, which afford us a view of the stoke-hole of the “City of Brussels”, of which steamer Mr. Houghton was very recently a passenger.

WAITING:  A poem by G.A. Simcox

THE SAD STORY OF ASHRAVAN:  A fictional Story.

HOW I READ PETRARCH:  A poem by an anonymous writer.

THE BONAPARTES:  A historical article concerning the Napoleon Bonaparte and his family.

SPANISH STUDENTS:  A lively engraving of a band of frolicsome students making merry. (See picture)

THREE SONNETS BY JEAN INGELOW: “An Ancient Chess King Dug From Some Ruins,” “Comfort in the Night,” and “Through all Great Deeds”.

GARIBALDI’S NOVEL – “THE RULE OF THE MONK; OR, ROME IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY”:  A critical article concerning this new book.

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