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
any great stir in the literary world. Since it appeared over
the name of Howard Pyle, who was too well known as a
writer of children's books, it probably never had a chance
among the seasoned readers of novels; but to a small group
of intelligently interested persons it brought a new idea, and
a vital subject for discussion. One friend of the author's,
James H. Canfield, librarian at Columbia University, found
the book so stimulating that he circulated it among various
of his clergymen acquaintances in order to get their impressions. In a letter to Howard Pyle dated June 22, 1904, he
quoted the following as coming from a leading New York
minister:
"'I write to report that I have read Rejected of Men by
Howard Pyle, as you suggested: with growing interest and,
finally, with entire admiration. The audacity of it is simply
stupendous, and the success so simply achieved, with such
sharp delineation of character and of environment, and with
such marked ultra-modern contrasts as effective as they are
bizarre, is a triumph of psychology and a masterpiece of
dramatic inventiveness. And the queer viewpoint and'weird
mystery of the whole tale amid its matter-of-factness, and
the unearthly--yet most earthlyý-inconclusiveness of it all,
are thrilling and extraordinary. Pyle is the Richard Strauss
of historical portraiture and reproduction!
"'Then the artistry of its conception and execution in detail, the power of social perspective in drawing with its sharp
class separation of people and experiences so near and yet so
far-is not all this remarkable?
"'Yet what to do with it? how to use it? how to utilize
and pass on the impression made upon myself? This at
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