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
it was repeated during the following summer, and would in
all probability have become a regular part of the Drexel
Institute, had not Howard Pyle resigned from his position
there in 1900o.
Toward the end of the first Summer School, he wrote
Dr. McAlister: "A week from tomorrow our Summer
School closes. I think we have produced some very good
results, though I am not sure that the high achievement for
which I was ambitious has been entirely attained. I dare
say I expect too much of my students, but I think it is better
to expect too much than too little. Upon the whole, I think
next winter we will find that our summer class has produced results which, if they do not eventually fully repay
the Drexel Institute in money for its expenditure, will, at
least, entirely recompense us in the increased excellence of
our students' work. By the end of the summer we will have
illustrated five books containing somewhat upwards of fifty
drawings; we will have made about a dozen very excellent
landscapes and have accomplished four studies of the draped
figure, of which three examples each-say, twelve examples
in all-may be exhibited this coming fall with credit to the
students and to the Drexel Institute.. ".4,"' And again
after the school had closed: 11. 0. I cannot but feel that
the generosity of the Drexel Institute to its art students has,
in this Summer School, performed a very great work. In
our efforts to build up an Art School upon the useful and
practical lines that have been laid down for it, nothing, in
my opinion, has so far advanced those endeavors as the work
of this school during the past season. In two instances a
doubtful student has been converted into an artist of very
1Letter to Dr. James McAlister, August 24, i1898.
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