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 would keep it by me for a little while so that I might
come to it with a fresh mind.. &.*.1" From these glimpses
into'his workshop it is clear that the story of Captain Brand
was the object of many attentions. When it appeared, it
met with tremendous success. The issue of Harper's
Weekly in which it appeared was sold out in record time,
and the edition was very large.
From that time this rather sensational treatment of
pirates was more popular with Howard Pyle than was his
former method. There was a sensational element in nearly
every picture and story. Collier's Weekly, in December,
1899, published a picture, "Dead Men Tell No Tales,"
about which he wrote to an inquiring correspondent:' "My
pirate picture may be explained as follows:
"The captain of the pirate vessel and the first mate called
upon three of the crew and together they have carried, a
chest of treasure up among the sand hills on the Atlantic
Coast just below the mouth of Delaware Bay. They needed
to revictual and water the ship, and were afraid to carry
the chest of treasure aboard lest one of the King's. cruisers,
upon the lookout for pirates, should search them and find
their ill-gotten gain.
"The pirate captain and the mate had already arranged
between them that the fewer who knew such a secret the
better. Consequently when the treasure was safely buried
and a cross thrust down into the sand to mark the hiding
place (for before their return a storm might so level the
sand as to make it impossible to discover the exact spot where
the treasure was hidden) they immediately proceeded to put
out of the way the unfortunate witnesses of the secret.
SLetter to Mrs. Merton MacDonald, January 22, 1900.
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