This column gives an overview of the current events in art and literature. Among other topics discussed in this column, there are notes discussing the Holiday issue of Harper's Weekly,, the tendency of other papers to reprint items from the Saturday Press without giving due credit, Horace Mann's,Wendell Phillips's, and Bayard Taylor's lectures, a discussion of the death of Robert Burns's youngest sister, and a discussion of Thackeray. The column also includes an overview of several current issues of English magazines and their contents.
A note reports that approximately two hundred papers have not given the Saturday Press credit after publishing poems and other items that originally ran in the Saturday Press (2).
A note announces the beginning of Taylor's lecture tour in the West and notes that Taylor will not make his way to the East coast for several months (2).
An electronic version of this text was previously available in CONTENTdm and has been migrated to Lehigh University's Digital Collections. Reconstruction of direct links to individual articles is in progress. In the meantime, browse issues of the Saturday Press in the Vault at Pfaff's Digital Collection. Page images of The New York Saturday Press were scanned from microfilm owned by Emory University, which was made from original copies held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
