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
There is splendid material in New York, and it would be
a great happiness to me if I could feel that my quarter of
a century of experience and knowledge could be of any
benefit to American Art-both illustrative and otherwise." 1
Chapin was at once enthusiastic about the plan, and
through his influence the interest of the Art League was
speedily aroused. Thus the lectures began almost immedioately. Although the authorities at the League, during the
winter that the lectures were continued, felt that Howard
Pyle was doing an inestimable service to the young artists,
he himself never considered his work there a success. He
was never able to give the individual attention to each pupil
that was so necessary an adjunct to his method of teaching.
He wrote to Chapin on May 8, 1905:0 " * 0. I am about
closing my series of lectures before the young artists at the
Art Students' League, and I think you will be interested to
know that the effort has not been a success-indeed, I think
it has been a decided failure..*0
"I think that my advice and criticism is not felt to be so
useful as I had hoped it might be. This is a great regret
to me, because I feel so sure that many of the knowledges
which I have acquired in the nearly thirty years of my work
would be of a very great deal of use to those who are only
beginning. But it 'is quite in line with the old adage that
a man may b 'e very willing to pump, but he cannot make
the animals drink.
"I feel that it is very possible for the illustrative work
of the magazine to be carried to a much higher plane of
solidity than it has yet attained to; for at present it gives
the impression, at least to me, of being thin, ephemeral, and
2 Letter to 3. H. Chapin, October 4, 1904.
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