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

SCHOOLS AND THEORIES OF ART
half hour or so to seeing and talking with any student who
might like to consult me concerning his or her work. I
would then go through the Art Schools from the primary
department to the life class, giving, so far as I am able to
give it, an opinion on the work done-holding in view the
fact that it should be directed not to academic perfection,
but to final use in the actual world of Art..0a
"In the afternoon I would deliver a lecture such as I
have been doing in the last two years. In the evening I
would criticise the night class from the draped model, say
from half past seven to half past nine or from eight to ten
O'clock. I recognize that fhi~s may be a treat burden to undertake, but I feel myself to be very strong physically, and
I think that I would be able to accomplish it at least for one
season and until the work of the Institute stands upon a more
solid ground than it seems to stand upon at present..00
"I stand prepared to give to the Institute all the assistance I can. I know of no better legacy a man can leave to
the world than that he had aided others to labor at an art
so beautiful as that to which I have devoted my life.. 0.)
The immense personal interest which he took in his individual pupils is exemplified in a letter to one of them: 1.". *
I do not recognize, as you do, that you failed in your first
attempt in my class. If you had done so I do not see that
it would have been of any matter, for you are beginning
upon something so entirely new and foreign to all methods
of teaching that it is not possible but that we shall both
meet with failures in the beginning, I in imparting knowledge and you in receiving it.
"I cannot tell you how weighted down with responsibility
' Letter to Dr. James McAlister, April 7, 1896.
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