Ex library book. The bookplate, as
shown in photos, belongs to The "Johnnycake Trail Collection". This collection of books was derived from a
bulletin put out to the residents of Rhode Island to aid in the
restoration of the libraries of Vermont that were destroyed in the flood
of November, 1927. While this book does lack the
original dust-jacket, it does contain a very rare bookplate from an
infamous event that struck Vermont. The only other book found with the same bookplate was Major General Ambrose E. Burnside and
the Ninth Army Corps dated 1867.
This is Henry
Harland's most famous and popular book, a light-hearted romantic story,
full of wit and gaiety and sunshine, set against happy scenes of Italian
life, describing the central character's conversion to Catholicism,
reflective of the author's own similar change of spiritual direction.