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
Drake had in the art room. They lay all over mine with
several yards to spare. H. P. will certainly have to work
up if he means to keep with the crowd. I hate that fellow
Blum's work but it is decidedly artistic in many ways. One
can't form a just idea of it by seeing the engravings alone.
Then there is a young fellow-a mere boy-doing landscapes, phew, mine are not a patch upon them. If I get up
to Stroudsburg all right, I am j ust going to lay myself out
to make good sketches or knock the bung out of the barrel.
"Drake says he is going to count on me to do lots of work
for them; speaks of an article they want me to travel for,
when I come back from the Water Gap.
"I stayed so long with Scribners that I had no time to
see Harpers, but only just enough to run into the Graphic
office on my way down to the ferry. I had sent on a sketch
of my 'Christmas in the Old Times,' but since I had not
heard from them, I finished it up without waiting. It
seems that they think it is a little too tipsy a subject for
them-in short, they don't like it. Disappointment? No.
They did not object very stronglyý-only thought that perhaps something else might do better. They were very respectful, rather' surprisingly so, I thought, in my present
humble-spirited frame of mind. I. think I shall send in
the finished design and see if they won't care to have it
as it is..
The result of the trip to Stroudsburg was an article,
"Autumn Sketches in the Pennsylvania Highlands."'1 It
was saturated with the spirit of nature, the sort of thing that
John Burroughs could do infinitely better, but the decorations were exquisite. Harper's liked it, and it was pubSHarper's New Monthly Magazine, December, 188 x, vol. lxi'v, p.8.
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