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

TH~E MIDDLE A GES
children of the future. As an expression of Howard Pyle's
own feeling in regard to these productions and the 'importance which they held in comparison with the other fields
of his endeavor, a paragraph from a letter to Merle
Johnson is eminently fitting:
"My ambition in days gone by was to write a really
notable adult book, but now I am glad that I have made
literary friends of the children rather than older folk. In
one's mature years, one forgets the books that one reads,
but the stories of childhood leave an indelible impression,
and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory
from which the image is never cast out to be thrown into
the rubbish-heap of things that are outgrown and outlived."

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