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"
marvelous golds and greens, is a splendid achievement in
design.
After The Ruby of Kishmoor there were a few other
articles and stories about freebooters, but none of them is
of any great importance. One might almost say that the
pirate vein reached its culmination in the gorgeously colored
pictures of The Fate of a Treasure Town and The Ruby of
Kishmoor, and that after these triumphs Howard Pyle
turned his versatile genius toward other phases of life or
romance. Through the spell which pirates and their deeds
held over him he had produced very worthy fruit. He had
re-created the buccaneer, made him live in modern story; in
the light of which fact it is interesting to find just what it
was about pirates that appealed to him. Under a picture
entitled "Ye Pirate Bold" he has written: "It is not because
of his life of adventure and daring that I admire this one
of my favorite heroes; nor is it because of blowing winds
nor blue ocean nor palmy islands which he knew so well;
nor is it because of gold he spent nor treasure he hid. He
was a man who knew his own mind and what he wanted."

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