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

HOWARD PYLE:- A CHRONICLE
trips to Rehoboth, for that little village was only a hundred
miles away.
Then about the middle of August he went to New York.
Here is the account of the trip as it was sent to Rehoboth:
"And now 1 am back from New York.. a. I went immediately down to 'The House' and saw Alden, the editor
of the Magazine, about that New Brunswick trip. He
seemed quite anxious for me to go but I represented to him
that it was anything but a pleasure for me to travel alone to
a country of which I knew nothing, to gather material of
which I had no idea, to make an article of which I did not
have the slightest conception. If I had a companion I might
enjoy it and we might suggest items to one another. Whereupon I delicately insinuated Frost's name. But Alden did
not snap at it in the least. He said that the 'House' was
making complaints in regard to the expense of running the
magazine and, as this would be an expensive trip, they could
not afford to have two artists in the field at once; that he
fully understood my disinclination to undertake the work
alone, but yet was sorry that I could not do it. He reminded me that it was I myself that had first proposed the
trip to him. That was very true and I had nothing to
say, but I thought how circumstances were altered now.
There followed some more parlance which it is needless
to recapitulate here, and finally matters were compromised
by the conclusion that if Mr. William H. Bishop would
undertake the writing I should go along and do the
illustrations. Bishop is a second-rate writer of considerable
ability who has done many short stories for the Atlantic
Monthly and other periodicals and has of late been writing
a novel, I believeý, for the above mentioned monthly. Alden
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