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
Oakley, whose trend is entirely in the direction of mural
work and glass; Mr. F. E. Schoonover, who, while his work
is only just beginning to make an impression, has already
received a commission to paint a picture of his own choice
of subject which involves a remuneration to the amount of
$i,ooo; and Miss Ida Daugherty, who is devoting herself
almost entirely to stained glass, in which she promises to
make a marked and maj or success provided she cares to
continue in that work."
To W. M. R. Frenchz.
"June 22, 1905.
It is quite true that I do think that our present
system of art education is not adequate to our requirements,
and it is true that I find it a practical fact and not a theory
that the education given by the academies to the young artists
who come to me for instruction has to be unlearned before
I can impart the facts that are necessary to make their art of
practical use in the world.
"I am very clear in my own mind as to the reason for
this, and I do not think they are at all involved or obscure.
Let me explain: I think you may easily see that in the
making of a successful picture, the artist must compose and
arrange his figures and effects altogether from his imagination, and that there is very little opportunity in the making
of such a picture for him to copy exactly the position of a
model placed before him in the lights and shadows which
the studios afford. Nor is it likely that he can find any
background to copy accurately and exactly into such an
imaginative picture.
"For example: suppose an artist were called upon to
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