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
eyes of the dancers and where the Indian raises the warwhoop-the sudden advent of Anglo-Saxon civilization into
that remote and half-savage wilderness.
"On second consideration, however, it seems to me that
the ballroom scene would be a very dangerous thing for me
to undertake. You have described it so entirely and with
such few and well-chosen words that I fear my picture
would be in the nature of an anti-climax. The illustrator's
art is not capable of so much movement and vivacity as the
litte'rateur's art. Pictorial art must represent some salient
point that shall convey as in a whole view a certain given
situation. It shall not require any text to explain it, but
should explain itself and all the circumstances belonging to
it. In your account the words and- the sentences sweep
along to a very fine climax and a very complete conclusion,
but if I drew a picture of Clark standing in the door of
the ballroom it might be any Anglo-Saxon pioneer interrupting any rude half-Indian frontier festivity, and might
incur the still greater danger of not fulfilling fitly your
very fine sentence. As a matter of illustration I would
rather seek to represent an image of Clark's advance into
the West-the long line of frontier riflemen trailing away
through the primeval forests with a gap in the woodlands
showing a glimpse of the rolling hills and sky and an eagle
wheeling in its flight-this as typifying the westward
advance of civilization.
"Or else I should rather choose for an illustration a picture of the advance against Hamilton through that tragedy
of the flood and ice and snow, of the melting winter-as
typifying the dauntless energy of the Anglo-American
purpose.
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