This item is the January 8, 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, with only a few age spots, but nothing serious.  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:

THE SPANISH BOY – The cover engraving from the painting by Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, an English artist who deserves to be better known here in the United States. (See cover picture)

A DOUBLE LIFE – A fictional story – The only person that really mistrusted the Lady Annie Beacham was Ponsonby, her maid….

DECORATING THE CHURCH – A full-page engraving drawn by Miss Ellen Edwards, which depicts the parishioners, decking the rural church with evergreen and holly for the Christmas service.

THE LEGEND OF BABY JESUS AND THE WEEDERS – A poem

A NIGHT IN STANDRING HALL – A fictional story – Standring Hall was just the house in which anybody, with a properly constituted mind, would like to pass his Christmas holidays…

POETS AND CRITICS – The present age has produced some great English critics and poets; indeed, almost all the poets who flourished at the beginning of the century.  Coleridge, Shelley, Wordsworth, Scott, and Southey, for example, distinguished themselves in criticism as well as in poetry.

FRENCH DINNERS – Frenchmen of half a century ago prided themselves upon the delicate freshness of their food, and boasted, that a stranger could get a dinner in Paris such as he never could at home.  Those were the good old times for gourmets.

PURITANS GOING TO CHURCH – A two-page engraving from the original painting by George Boughton, which depicts how the early settlers of the United States traveled to their place of worship with precautions against various elements. (See picture)

DEATH IN THE WORKSHOP – A poem

SQUIRE BRIMLEY – A fictional story – When our old nurse Deborah first entered our grandfather’s service, the family at the Manor House consisted of five daughters, and our great-aunts….

CHRISTMAS DREAMS – A full-page engraving, which represents two little ones who have gone to sleep, the night before Christmas, with a very strong faith in the generosity and resources of Santa Claus. (See picture)