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
time (in early manhood), is nearly ready. It is to appear
in our next January number. The author thinks these
papers will furnish subjects for some very effective illustrations, and has suggested his preference for your treatment
of such subjects. We also would be pleased if you could
and would undertake the matter--can you? -.. You
would need to go to Princeton at once to get from Professor
Wilson your motifs for the first paper..0*7
The matter was accordingly arranged;i Howard Pyle, met
Professor Wilson at Princeton and plans were made to make
the most notable series of historical illustrations which had
yet made their appearance in an American magazine. They
were immensely successful pictures; in them was concentrated all the knowledge of the period which the artist had
gained from unremitting research, and all the technical skill
which had come with eighteen years' experience. Woodrow
Wilson wrote to him on December 23, 1 895, after having
just seen the proofs of the first group, "I must write at
once to express my admiration for the illustrations you have
made for my first article. They seem to me in every way
admirable. They heighten the significance of the text, not
only being entirely in its spirit, but are themselves besides,
perfect in their kind. The last of the three1 seems to me
especially delightful for its human truth. I have just written to beg the publishers to let me have proof copies of
them, and of the rest as they follow: for I shall certainly
want to frame some; all, indeed, that I can find room for."
Then, a week later, he concluded a letter,"...0 01 have
already expressed my delight with the illustrations of the
1 "cThey Read Only' upon Occasions When the Weather Darkened,"
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, January, 18596, vol. xcii, p. 169.
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