Howard Pyle, a chronicle by Charles D. Abbott, with an introduction by N. C. Wyeth and many illustrations from Howard Pyle's works.

HOWARD PYLE: A CHRONICLE
I get along pretty well excepting at meal times and in the
evening. At meals we form a part of a long table d'1h6te
of uninteresting people, and though they are now more interesting than they were at first, they are not yet thrillingly
SO. In the evenings we have a very uncomfortable sitting
room where the family gathers and where Mrs. Pyle reads
to us. But we have found now a furnished apartment which
I think will be very nice..00
It-0 wished a great many times that I had you boys
here to enj oy this with me. I wish also that my strength
would come back to me, for I am as yet quite weak-too
weak to work-for I had a very sharp and intense illness
while it lasted, and it seems to have cut away nearly all
of my virility and strength. I am much better, however,
and expect each week to find a studio and do at least some
work. 0.
I 4 think, however, that both you and Frank ought
to come over here to Italy. It will be a great lesson to you
in the way of color, composition, etc., for the old masters
certainly were glorious painters and I take back all that I
ever said against them.. 0. )
Ic*0 do not think Italy is what it is cracked up to be.,
There are plenty of old buildings in a wonderful state of
preservation, but the place itself seems run down, dilapidated
and dirty. There are some exceptions to this. Among these
is the Uffizi and Pitti collection of the paintings of the Old
Masters.
To Ethel Pennewill Browun.
"December 27, 1910 -"You know I di 'd not think much of the Old Masters, seeing them in black and white, but in color they are so re[ 242 1