This item is the May 27, 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 for a publication of this age.  Additional pictures are available upon request, please send your e-mail address.

ARTICLES:

READING TO GRANDMOTHER:  The cover engraving drawn by W. J. Hennessy. (See cover picture)

THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON:  This treaty concerns the settlement of what have been popularly called the Alabama claims.  The question for all to ask is, “Have our substantial demands upon Great Britain, for the wrongs and injuries she was the means of inflicting upon us during the war of the Rebellion, been properly met?”

THE CONSTABULARY INVESTIGATION:  An investigation was brought by those who favor free traffic of whiskey.  The case against the State constables rests on a most remarkable amount of evidence, but as liquor selling may be a great crime, how shall you enforce an act against it, which is not sustained by public judgment?

WHY IMMIGRATION HALTS:  Thirty or forty prominent citizen of Georgia have lately issued an address, inviting immigrants to settle in that State.

THE INFANT ACADEMY:  It is somewhat unfortunate that Sir Joshua Reynolds neglected to inform the world where the famous School of Painting, whose operations he has here so attractively depicted, held its sittings.  The painting The Infant Academy is owned by Lord Palmerston and is preserved at his family seat at Broadlands.  (see picture)

AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF VON MOLTKE:  It may not be generally known that in his youth General von Moltke served in Turkey under Sultan Mahomoud.

WHO DISCOVERED PHOTOGRAPHY?:  One of the most interesting questions in scientific circles yet undetermined is the name of the original discoverer of photography, and certainly one of the most pertinent circumstances tending to solve the mystery is that which is now related of an old house at Soho, near Birmingham, where the renowned engineering establishment of Watt & Boulton was originally founded, and in which house Boulton lived.

A TERRIBLE TEMPTATION:  A fictional story by Charles Reade.

THE LONDON SPECTATOR ON BRET HARTE: Literary review of Mr. Harte’s work.

NOBODY’S FORTUNE:  A fictional story by Edmund Yates.

THE WOMEN OF PARIS:  Every Paris revolution has produced its particular class of female patriots, who, ten times more cruel and unreasonable than the men, spur their masculine compatriots on to those unnecessary acts of vengeful cruelty for which the Parisian revolutionists are so nototious.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AT VERSAILLES:  A Frenchman is not a good disputant and can rarely debate without losing his temper and pouring forth bitter inventive against his opponents, their cause, and often their personal character.

A REPUBLICAN PROCESSION IN LONDON, - SUNDAY MORNING:  This picture represents a shabby procession in London of those from the working class who are in a chronic state of dissatisfaction about how they are to be supplied with work and food. (See picture)

THE ARTIST FRIENDS:  Among the many severe trials, which belong to the practice of art there are few more difficult to bear philosophically than the criticism of friends.

THE SISTERS:  This picture of two sewing women, tells a sad story of those who have seen more prosperous days. (See picture)

THE SCIENCE OF COMPARATIVE RASCALITY:  Moralist are beginning to find that the development of modern society is bringing them face to face with new problems in ethics.  Rascality is an imperfectly recognized science, but one sure in the end to clear up some of the mysteries of the human conscience, and establish just relations between rogues occupying palaces and rogues imprisoned in jails.

THE MALE COSTUME OF THE PERIOD:  We went to see a play the other evening, - one of those old-fashioned English comedies that are in five acts and seem to be in fifteen, and the actors costumes represented quite antagonistic periods.

ON THE MISSISSIPPI:  A historical article of life in the Mississippi region by Ralph Keeler and illustrated by A. R. Waud .   The illustrations by Waud include the following:

1. FORT JACKSON, - VIEW FROM THE REAR OF COLONEL HAMBRIGHT’S HEADQUARTERS.

2. THE WRECK OF THE MORGAN.

3. THE LAST OF PORTER’S MORTAR-BOATS.

4. FORT JACKSON FROM FORT ST. PHILIP.

5. JENNY.

6. PRISONERS AT FORT JACKSON.

7.CHIPS.

8. A SNIPE-SHOOTER.

ON THE MISSISSIPPI, - AT FORT JACKSON:  An engraving drawn from a sketch by Waud, telling the story of a black man who has been free since 1864 and has not been imprisoned, which he sees as an accomplishment in his life.  (see picture)

LEAVES FROM A LECTURER’S NOTEBOOK:  by Kate Field.

TEETH. - We hear very little about dentist-failures; because those unhappy beings that require a new mouthful of teeth shrink from saying much about it.

PRUSSIA AND JAPAN:  The friendly relation of Prussia and Japan deserve more notice than is generally accorded to them. 

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