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

CHAPTER IV

THE RETURN
LATE in the year 1879 New York began to lose its.Linterest for Howard Pyle. There had been something very attractive in the free and easy life, full
of triumphs and defeats, crowded with companions who
had been something more than friends to him, who had
been fellow-workers striving for the same ideal, a perfection of the illustrative art. But now the old cameraderie
was breaking up;i Abbey had gone to England, Frost was in
Philadelphia, Reinhart was drawn away by his increasing
work and growing popularity. The ranks were being filled
by a new class of artists, "the straight hat brims and pointed
beards" as Remington called them, who were not so interested in the practical side of illustration, but who devoted.
themselves more to the accepted phases of landscape and
portraiture, who borrowed freely from anything eccentric,
and constantly defended their own little peculiarities. With
this type of artist Howard Pyle could not associate and remain happy. He was too overwhelmingly occupied with
ideals; his thoughts were big; he was planning how illustration might be made a well-recognized branch of the Fine
Arts. These artists had no interest in any such improvement. Illustration to them was mere hack work. To one of
Howard Pyle's temperament, which was courageously
manly, and yet colored with a poetic mysticism that gave
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