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
duced such great results with such limited material as the
Drexel Institute has achieved."1
A little before this, January 27, he had written to J. Henry
Harper:"... It is a great disappointment to me that my
teaching at the Drexel Institute has not done more than it
has, and I have given the matter no small consideration.
The first thing, obviously, to do is to resign my position
as teacher of the School of Illustration, f or I cannot waste
my time in teaching mediocrity.. a a It now remains to turn
my acquired knowledge of teaching to some real account.
To this end the following plan has suggested itself to me:
"That I build here in Wilmington a studio or set of
studios adjoining my own studio; that I gather together in
these studios some six or nine pupils, singling them out, not
from Philadelphia alone, but from the larger schools in
other important cities, such as New York, Boston, and
Chicago..
"I propose giving my instruction gratuitously, expecting
the students to pay only a small rental to cover the interest
upon the money invested in the building. They would, besides, have to pay for their models and for heating the
building in winter. Beyond this there would be no expense
for instruction, and I think that from seven to ten dollars
a month (exclusive of the hire of models) would be all that
they would be called upon to pay.
"In the meantime I would endeavor to throw in their way
all the illustration of the best class that I could obtain, thus
endeavoring to instruct them first of all to make their art
useful before turning it in the direction of color work. I
also think that by doing such illustrative work they would
1'Letter to Dr. James McAlister, February 14) 1900.
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