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
publishers were so pleased with the work that they have
expressed a willingness to publish all or nearly all of the
drawings made by the Summer School in Harper's Weekly,
and also others done through the season under the auspices
of the Class of Illustration at the Institute.. 0. Besides
these examples of full work, one of the pupils has made
two illustrations for McClure's Magazine, and others have
illustrated books for Houghton, Mufflin & Company, and
Dodd, Mead & Company. This has consumed, of course,
a part of -the summer, but my chief instruction has been
directed to the _perfection of our Institute work, and those
people who have been delayed in the finishing thereof because of these important books undertaken are remaining
here at their own expense to complete the Drexel Institute
Class work. 1
Early in 1900o Howard Pyle began to feel that he was not
accomplishing enough at the Drexel Institute to warrant his
giving up two days of his time every week. He, accordingly,
in the following letter resigned his position, and his resignation was unwillingly accepted: " 0.. I find myself impelled herewith to resign my position as Instructor of the Art
Department of the Drexel Institute..0a
"11( i ) My timeI is very valuable, and now that I feel myself quite matured in my art knowledges, I think it both unwise and wrong to expend my time in general teaching. (2)
The great majority of a class as large as that which I teach
at the Drexel Institute is hopelessly lacking in all possibility
of artistic attainment. (3) There are only one or two who
can really receive the instruction which I give. (4) To im' Letter to Dr. James McAlister, September 21, x1899.
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