THE BRAYO;

Jacopo" whispered a voice. that to the exited imagination

of the loveling Bravo appeared to hover in the air?

A TALE

BY J FENIMORE COOPER

"Giustizia in palazzo, e pane in piazza."

ILLUSTRATED FROM DRAWINGS BY F. O. C. DARLEY

NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY HURD AND HOUGHTON.

Cambridge: Riverside Press.

1872.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1859. by

W. A. TOWNSEND AND COMPANY,

n the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York

CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

LOOMIS-ANNIN

PREFACE.

IT is to be regretted the world does not discriminate more justly in its use of political terms. Governments are usually called either monarchies or republics. The former class embraces equally those institutions in which the sovereign is worshipped as a god, and those in which he performs the humble office of a manikin. In the latter we find aristocracies and democracies blended in the same generic appellation. The consequence of a generalization so wide is an utter confusion on the subject of the polity of states.

The author has endeavored to give his country. men, in this book, a picture of the social system of one of the soi-disant republics of the other hemisphere. There has been no attempt to portray historical characters, only too fictitious in their graver dress, but simply to set forth the familiar operations