This item is the January 22, 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 clean and bright for a publication of this age.  Additional pictures are available upon request.  Please include your e-mail address.

ARTICLES:

JEAN BAPTISTE GREUZE – Had he been born in Italy when sacred and legendary art found almost unlimited patronage, he might have rivaled Guido or Carlo Dolce in their saints and martyrs.  In the 1870’s six of his pictures were in the gallery of the Louvre at Paris.  The cover engraving is the head of a female from one of his paintings.  (See picture)

TWO SONGS by JEAN INGLOW – COLD AND QUIET; and DEFTON WOOD

PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF LEIGH HUNT – Through literature, rather than directly by means of literature, did Leigh Hunt make his mark; and it is mainly in the literary class that we shall find his admirers.

THE AIR-MOTHERS – A story by Charles Kingsley

THE PRIZE DOGS – A full-page engraving drawn by Mr. Weir of likenesses of the lucky dogs that took the highest prizes at the exhibition held at Birmingham, England. (See picture)

THE SONG OF THE HESPERIDES – A poem

WHAT WOMEN THINK ABOUT MEN – A fictional story

APPLAUSE, CALLS, AND ENCORES – An article by Dutton Cook

THE BALLET-GIRLS OF PARIS – An article concerning the life and reputations of the women of ballet in Paris.

SHELLING PEAS IN CONVENT GARDEN MARKET – A full-page engraving of a view of a section of the vegetable department in convent garden Market, London.  The untimely picture is presented to set any snow-bound spectator longing for what he cannot get.

IN CHURCH – A full-page engraving drawn by W. Thomas, which represents the interior of Fairfield Church, one of those quaint rural churches found in England. (See picture)

THE STREAM THAT HURRIES BY – A poem by Gerald Griffin

BOARDS OF GREEN CLOTH – The description and rules of certain gambling board games, such as Roulette and Tente et Quarante.

REPROACH – A poem

WAS IT HAUNTED? – A fictional story

MORE ABOUT DIAMONDS – A historical article concerning diamonds; how they are mined and then cut into gems.  Also, some of the most famous owners of diamonds and how they were used as fashionable items.

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