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

"THE BLOODY QUAKER"
Clarke, one of the editors, called it "a noble story and an
admirable picture of the time with which it deals." In 189 5
it was published in book form.
The next important venture into the pirate field was "The
Ghost of Captain Brand" which appeared in the Christmas
number of Harper'Is Weekly, 1 896. This story marks a
change in the treatment of the picturesque old buccaneers.
Heretofore they had always been realistic and truthfully
historical; now a shade of fantasy is consciously introduced.
On July 13, 18 96, he wrote to Har 'Per's, "I have in mind
a somewhat chaotic outline of a story which shall be called
perhaps 'The Ghost of Captain Brand.' As it grows in my
mind I find it of rather a sensational order, the Captain
Brand being an ex-pirate of the old school. The story
would be the very furthest removed from realism, but I
think might be made interesting 'if carried out as I have it
in mind.. 0. " Further, on August 12, "... I...
find it a very difficult story to write, requiring very delicate
and careful touching to give it the appearance of substance
and reality. If it has no such appearance it will, I appre-.
hend, be merely sensational without any real substance
remaining. It is the elaboration of such details as this that
runs it beyond its prescribed length, but I do not see how
these can be left out without making the story bald and
uninteresting...." Then again, on August 3 1,)
I am well aware that the extreme length of the story vali-.
dates a great deal against it, but, nevertheless, I send it to
you to read, for I think there is a certain smack of originality about it, and the idea of the loves of the young couple
aboard the pirate brigantine I think is not altogether amiss.
It is, perhaps, a little overstrung in places, and ordinarily
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