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
I paint it well enough. I have so long wanted to own one
of your pictures. I have a picture which Mr. Joseph Jefferson gave me-one of his own; he paints; a Joseph Jefferson ain't a bad thing in the bric-a'-brac line."
Needless to say, when the "puncher did gallop into
Wilmington," he immediately took up his position on the
wall of the Pyle house in a very important place. This
friendship between Howard Pyle and Frederic Remington,
while never very intimate, leads one to see the similarity
in their ideas. Both of them were working for the same
thing-an untrammeled American art-which with American methods could interpret American subj ects. Their
work was entirely different, since one turned to the West
exclusively for his material, and the other portrayed largely
the former history of his country. Yet they recognized the
fact that they were both striving for the same ideal, and
sincerely honored each other in the recognition.
The absorption in pirates was so strong that when Howard
Pyle came to write a boy's novel of life in ColonialI Virginia,
a buccaneer, Captain Edward Teach, better known as
Blackbeard, figured as one of the most important characters.
This book, Jack Rallister's Fortunes, was a faithful study of
Colonial customs and conditions. Jack Ballister, the hero,
is kidnapped and sold into the service of a Virginia planter
whose daughter is captured by the famous pirate captain
and finally rescued by the hero himself. The plot is well
knit, the act-ion moves smoothly and rapidly. There is never
a dull moment. It is huge in its possibilities for boys, who
cannot fail to revel in the mass of adventure so thrillingly
chronicled. When it was first published serially 'in St.
Nicholas with pictures in black-and-white, Mr. W. F.
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