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
fancy to it, and now it hangs in the Roosevelt house at
Oyster Bay.
These were almost the last of Howard Pyle's historical
pictures to appear in black-and-white in the magazines.
Those which followed, and they were not many, were for
the most part reproduced in full color. Perhaps the best of
these were the illustrations to Basil King's story "The Hanging of Mary Dyer," one of the products of Howard Pyle's
short association with McClure's Magazine as art editor in
1905. Mr. King wrote to him concerning them on November 3, 1906: "Permit me to thank you for the beautiful
illustrations with which you have ennobled-the word is
just-my little story of Mary Dyer, in the November issue
of McClure's. I cannot but feel that if I had only seen the
illustrations first, I should have written a better tale. I have
to thank you, too, and most sincerely, for the kind suggestions with regard to one or two details in the story which are
incorrect. It was the more important that Mary Dyer
should come out of the prison with her hands unbound-as
you represent her-from the fact that 'in the scene on the
scaffold, which is absolutely historical, she is spoken of
as though, at first, her hands were free. Until you
pointed it out, I had not noticed the inconsistency in my
own narrative. Again let me offer you my most genuine
thanks,. 0.0.).
In addition to all the pictures which treated directly of
the history of the United States, Howard Pyle illustrated
a number of stories which described the social life in certain
sections of the country. The most outstanding of these were
doubtless the pictures which were drawn for Margaret
Deland's Old Chester Tales, published in Harper's
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