This item is the June 3, 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.  Additional pictures are available upon request, please send your e-mail address.

ARTICLES:

JOHN HOWARD PAYNE:  A portrait of John Howard Payne is the cover engraving of this issue.  Mr. Payne was the author of the “Home Sweet Home”.  He was also the author of several plays and books, and later in life was appointed Council at Tunis. (See cover portrait)

THE REAL CENTRALIZATION:  It is a statement frequently made that a fearful centralization is going on in our Government, which threatens to paralyze the States and destroy individual liberty.  The congressional branch is increasing predominance in our Government.

EATANSWILL JOURNALISM. - The town of Eatanswill, has grown greatly, since it was visited by the immortal Pickwick.  It is located on the southwest shore of Lake Michigan.  The journals of the area have not changed much in their reporting of the political news.

THE NEXT REBELLION:  The women-suffrage anniversary meetings in New York this year were not very numerously attended, but radicalism on the part of the leading speakers fully atoned for want of attention by the people.

THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, - THE PICTURE GALLERY:  Our engraving shows the great gateway from the Buddhist Tope at Sanchi, Central India. (See picture)

A TERRIBLE TEMPTATION:  A fictional story by Charles Reade.

“TEN GREAT RELIGIONS”:  Under this title Rev. James Clarke has written a book, the purpose of which is to give in a compact form the results of modern European study of the principal religious beliefs of mankind.

DECORATION DAY, MAY 30, 1871: A two-page engraving drawn by W. J. Hennessy depicting the ceremony of 1871.  This holiday was later named Memorial Day. (See picture)

LOVE’S MUSIC:  A poem by Philip Bourke Marston.

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

FUNERAL IN PARIS OF NATIONAL GUARDS KILLED IN BATTLE:  The funerals are celebrated with all the pomp and parade as possible, with the view of exciting a fervent desire for revenge in the hearts of the Parisians.

ESCAPING FROM PARIS BY NIGHT:  Many and varied have been the stratagems employed by the anti-Communist Parisians to get away from their once-adored capital.  The engraved illustration represents the more courageous, and bold escape from the ramparts.

HOW THE PHOTOGRAPHY ASSISTS JUSTICE:  The sun-picture is sufficient to settle many a disputed point.

THE NEW ROUTE TO THE YOSEMITE:  Via the Central Pacific Railroad the trip from San Francisco has been shortened by a full day of travel, and made much more enjoyable for tourist.

A FIELD OF DARWIN:  A writer of the Gentleman’s Magazine says there “is a field of inquiry as yet almost untouched by the advocates of the Darwinian philosophy”; the study of present day man as opposed to primitive races.

RE-UNION OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, - GLOBE THEATRE, MAY 12, 1871.  The Society of the Army of the Potomac is not a political organization, as General Meade stated in his address.  It meets merely to renew old associations and cherish the friendships formed in the camps and on the battlefields. (See picture)

TOWN-TALK. - MUSICA VICTRIX. - A REMINISCENCE OF THE HANDEL AND HAYDN FESTIVAL:  The festival week just celebrated in Boston, was comprised of music of the highest order; a week of symphonies and concerts and orators.

THE INTOLERANCE OF WOMAN:  There is nothing that exasperates an intelligent woman more than the asinine confidence with which inferior men are in the habit of dogmatizing on the differences between the sexes, and indicating what they are pleased to call the “appropriate sphere” of woman.

HORSE-CAR MANNERS:  The unfortunate man who for a length of years has been obliged to depended on the horse-car as a means of conveyance to and from his place of business must have noticed a singular alteration in the manners of his fellow - creatures towards women.

ON THE MISSISSIPPI:  A historic article written by Ralph Keeler and illustrated by A. R. Waud.  Illustrations include: “Stake Island”, “Southwest Pass Lighthouse”, “Nun Danket Alle Gott”, “Pilot Town”, “A Telegraph Station”, “Captain Wilson”, “Charley Andrews”, and "The Essayons at Work Removing The Bar at the Mouth of the Southwest Pass" (See picture).

LEAVES FROM A LECTURE’S NOTE-BOOK:  by Kate Field.

A TALK WITH WHITTIER:  A writer in the Lakeside Monthly gives an interview with the Quaker Poet.

AUBER:  The last few years have witnessed the death of Halevy, Meyerbeer, Rossini, and Mercadante, and now we have to write the customary farewell words about their distinguished contemporary, Auber.

PAUPER LORDS:  The Temple Bar for May contains an interesting paper on pauper lords.

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