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

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struicture and peculiar charm of -the book will be taken
up in more detail in a later chapter, but it must be remembered here that with its publication Howard Pyle at once
rose into the ranks of the foremost illustrators and writers
for children.
During the first years after the marriage, Mrs. Pyle
spent the summers at Rehoboth, while Mr. Pyle worked' in
Wilmington, but every week-end and whenever there was
a lull in his work, he would steal away to the shore. In
Wilmington many things were accomplished: innumerable
tales and fairy stories for Youtng People with delightful
pen-and-inks to go with them; historical stories and pictures for Harper's Weekly; and many heterogeneous illustrations for the Monthly. All this kept him fairly busy, but he
was never one to waste a moment, no matter how much work
he had done in a day. Every minute was filled with something. Even while he was drawing he would have some
one read to him whenever it was possible. In one letter
he mentions the fact that he was having read aloud The
Descent of Man-and this, too, when he was working on
some of the most lovely pictures that were later to be included in The Wonder Clock.
The studio which he was to use for the rest of his life was
built in 1883. He had it erected on Franklin Street between Delaware and Pennsylvania Avenues. He spent a
great deal of time in planning it; it was to be just the studio
that he had always dreamed of-large, practical, and
comfortable.
Although his reputation was now firmly established,
although he was hailed on all sides as one of the coming
masters of his craft, he still occasionally had hours of de[89]1