THE BRAVO'S SECRET: OR, THE SPY OF THE "TEN." A VENETIAN TALE. FOUNDED ON INCIDENTS WHICH OCCURRED DURING THE LATTER PART OF THE REIGN OF FRANCESCO DANDOLO, DOGE OF VENICE.
BYSYLVANUS COBB, JR.
BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY F. GLEASON,
AT THE FLAG OF OUR UNION OFFICE,
MUSEUM BUILDING, TREMONT STREET.
1851.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by F. Gleason, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.PUBLISHER'S NOTE.—The following Novellette was originally published in THE FLAG OF OUR UNION, and is but one among the many deeply interesting productions emanating from that source. The FLAG has attained to a circulation unrivalled in newspaper literature; its contributors form a corps of the finest talent in the land, and its romances, tales, and poetical gems are of a high order, and such as enrich the columns of no other publication.
The following is the Prospectus of the Flag:
The Best Miscellaneous Paper in the World is
THE FLAG OF OUR UNION,
A Literary and Miscellaneous Family Journal, containing News, Wit, Humor, and Romance—independent of Party or Sect.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, BY
- F. GLEASON, Museum Building, Tremont St., Boston,
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Printed with new type throughout, manufactured expressly for that journal, with a superb heading, on the finest of paper, and in a style unequalled in this or any other country.
It is running over with anecdotes, adventures, exciting stories, prize tales, wit and humor, sprinklings of fun and wisdom, and the well-digested news of the day, both foreign and domestic; and with great editorial care, and the employment of the best writers that money can procure, it is emphatically, A GREAT PAPER.
It contains an average of TWENTY-FIVE COLUMNS OF ORIGINAL MATTER each week, of the choicest character, besides the CREAM of all the general intelligence of the times, so carefully condensed as to embrace, in one paper, the matter that would fill half a dozen ordinary sheets. With a circulation UNEQUALLED BY ANY OTHER PAPER, the publisher is enabled to make large outlays upon the FLAG OF OUR UNION, and to outstrip all competitors in liberality.
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- 16 " " " 20 00
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