Howard Pyle, a chronicle by Charles D. Abbott, with an introduction by N. C. Wyeth and many illustrations from Howard Pyle's works.

FR UITFUL ASSOCIA TIONS
me tell you, ti is no light matter, but one that should
rather be spoken of beneath your breath. We assemble
there to imbibe inspiration, the beer and pretzels being a
secondary object. My 'man of the stunning cartoons,' as
you are pleased to designate him, happens to be Mr. William
Chase, engravings from the photographs of whose paintings
you may possibly see in Harper's soon along With sundry
other leaders in art, as a representative American artist.
He is Piloty's favorite scholar, whose children he painted
as well as a somewhat well-known portrait of Prince Bismarck. He at present happens to have the reputation of
standing at the head of the younger American school of art.
He is rather a small man with snapping black eyes, a quick
nervous manner, a thin handsome face, artistic beard and
moustache, and thick black hair standing erect all over his
head. To conclude with, he is a polished gentleman, has
the best standard of all American artists abroad, and has
a studio with the most magnificent stuff in it in the shape
of tapestries and old Italian furniture, I ever saw in my
life. Such is 'the man of the stunning cartoons' with whom,
seriously speaking, your son feels highly honored at being
connected.
"Next, Walter Shirlaw, also a Munich student, standing
only second to Chase. He painted the picture of 'Tuning
the Bell,' sold abroad, and a photograph of which was
engraved and published in the London Graphic as the representative picture of the year in which it was exhibited in
Germany. Shirlaw is a queer, tall, leathery-faced man
with cadaverous cheeks, a slow way of talking, long Indianlike hair, and is very homely. The very antipode of Chase
in fact. He has queer, long, bony fingers, the peculiar
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