Howard Pyle, a chronicle by Charles D. Abbott, with an introduction by N. C. Wyeth and many illustrations from Howard Pyle's works.

PHILOSOPHER AND MYSTIC
are yet developed; that the Iron Man means not only the
temptations, but the knowledges which belong to this world
from which higher endeavor and diviner purpose must be
rescued ere it can develop into full freedom of life; that
the boy represents a certain spiritual purpose by means of
which we overcome the temptations and knowledges of the
world.
"There are many other things intended in the story, chief
of which is the marriage between the inner and divine life
and the spiritual purpose of manhood, which, however, I can
hardly make clear to you in a letter....*"
In addition to these two books-Rejected of Men and
The Garden Behind the Moon-which are interpretative of
the mystical side of Howard Pyle's character, there are a
number of illustrations which do almost as much to bring
it out. There is the series of pictures for Edwin Markham's
"Man with the Hoe" published in i9oo, concerning one of
which-that for the "Song of Peace"-Augustus St. Gaudens said, ".1.*. The virility and poetry and the beauty
of it are remarkable... ". Howard Pyle himself wrote
in regard to these pictures:
"I do not know why it is that I should have drifted into
the position of an illustrator of what is sometimes called the
'poetical essay.'
"Some years ago I began illustrating the occasional poems
of W. D. Howells which were afterward collected into a
volume called Stops of Various Quills.
"Whether or not the illustrations were very successful
I do not know, but since then I have every now and then
been called upon to illustrate a poem of the analytical sort.
SLetter to Howard Pyle, June zo, 19o2.
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