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
lost to those whom it may amuse, and that only the rather
sensational narrative will be left-and of course you want
to please all tastes.. *.*.1" As a compromise, the story
was published slightly condensed in the magazine, and as
the author had written it in the book. The results in each
case prove his contention, for, as the tale appears in the
book it is infinitely better than it was in the magazine. It
is both lively and droll, deliciously hyperbolical and at the
same time straightforwardly simple. Mr. Jonathan Rudd,
a calm, sober, young Philadelphia Quaker, on a trip to
Jamaica falls at once into an adventure so extravagant that
it is beyond even his dreams. His dogged plainness and
lack of romantic fervor provide exquisite fun under the
circumstances. The pictures for The Rub6y of Kishmoor,
however, are its really outstanding merit. They are in
color-bold but well-balanced color. The single figure of
Captain Keitt, standing on the slanting deck of his ship with
a high sea running behind and a burning galleon in the
distance, is perhaps the best of all of Howard Pyle's pirate
pictures.
There had been, before these illustrations for The Ruby
of Kishmoor, a number of buccaneering pictures in color;
they came almost simultaneously with the colored Middle
Age pictures, when the process of reproduction had been
improved so as to make them adaptable. In the Christmas
number of Harper's Monthly, 1905, there had been four in
illustration to one of the artist's own articles, "The Fate of
a Treasure Town." These four pictures were the sensation
of the magazine world;i they were marvelously rich in color,
but not garish; they were dramatically stirring, and vividly
romantic. The one called "Attack on a Galleon," with its
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