This item is the January 1, 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:

ALFRED TENNYSON – A portrait of Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate of England is engraved on the cover of this issue, and his biography is the subject of the article.  It involves his rise to prominence and his relations with royalty. (See cover portrait)

NORTHERN FARMER – A poem by Alfred Tennyson

MORNING CALLS ON THE MUNICH POLICE – A story of six women and their adventures in Germany.

HOW I SLEW BLUEBEARD – The story of how the ancient story of Bluebeard was taught to a boy, by his nursery governess, in order to educate him in the performance of heroic deeds, and how he overcame the horrors of the legend throughout his life.

THE DEAD YEAR – A poem

MY FIRST PATRON – An artist’s story

BY THE SEA – A poem

THE PASHA’S WAR-COURIER’S – A full-page engraving by the famous French artist Jean Leon Gerome, which depicts two of the Pasha’s couriers, setting forth from the gateway of an Algerian town with messages to the allied tribes in the distant desert. (See picture)

LORD LYTTON – A biographical article of the English novelist Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer.  A full-page engraved portrait of Lord Lyton is presented from a photograph by J. Watkins. (See portrait)

CHRISTMAS CAROLS – A poem

AT THE SIGN OF THE GOLDEN CANISTER – A fictional story

AU REVOIR – A poem by F. T. Palgrave

PARIS ELEGANCES – Mme. Elaine de Marsy, one of the leading writers on fashion in Paris, supplies the following details of designs that were greatly admired at some receptions at Compiegne, at which the Princess Mathilde did the honors.

LADY DOCTORS – A poem

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