This item is the March 26, 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:

COURSING ON THE SOUTH DOWNS – A lively cover engraving from the painting by Harrison Weir. (See cover picture)

FATMA ZAIDA’S KORAN – There is in Lisbon a typographic Franco-Portugais society, which has published a new translation, in French, of the Alkoran or Koran.  It is the work of a pious Mussulman, Fatma Zaida.  His object, he tells, is to correct the serious errors which have got abroad, from the little respect Christians have for that precept, put forth in the holy book.

THE CASTLE OF ST. ANGELO – Next to St. Peter’s and the Vatican, the castle of St. Angelo is the most prominent feature of modern Rome.  The celebrated fortress was first commenced by Hadrian, who built the massive circular tower (Moles Hadriani) as a mausoleum for himself.  (See picture)

GOOD TASTE – An aphorism has been for some time going about the world, which, like most aphorisms, is palpably false, or, palpably incomplete, asserting the impropriety of disputing about taste.

JAMES HOLLAND – The admirable water-color painter was born at Burslem, in September, 1800, of a family which had long been connected with the staple manufacture of that potter’s town.  His grandfather is said to have been the introducer of “shining black wares,” then much in vogue in America.  His grandmother was a painter of flowers in pottery and porcelain.

MOZART IN LONDON – In April1764, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart arrived in England from France with his parents.  He was a musical phenomenon at the age of eight, and already known in England.

THE SPANISH FLOWER-STALL – A full page engraving from the drawing by F.W. Topham (See picture)

THE FAVORITES – A full page engraving from the drawing by Frederick Taylor (See picture)

TOWLE’S AMERICAN SOCIETY – European travelers have characterized and ridiculed the American Society.  Mr. Towele thinks that no foreigner can form such opinions unless he has lived in the United States for several years, and had the opportunity to observe more than the average traveller.

PARISIAN FENCING – A distinguished member of the French Academy asserts that fencing, like conversation, is a national art with his countrymen.  To cross swords is to converse.

THE WRECK – A full page engraving from the drawing by G.H. Andrews (See picture)

WHAT SONG SHALL IT BE? – A Poem

THE IRON RING – In the wide territory between Incredulity and Faith lies the Debatable Land of Dreams, a region in which we all wander now and then, while the subject of the golden or ghastly vision seems to be chosen for us by a power,

THE HARVEST HOME IN GERMANY – A full page engraving from the drawing by L.C. Henley (See picture)

STEERAGE BUNKS – An admirable engraving of life on shipboard by Mr. Houghton (See picture)

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