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

ITALY AND THE END
tion so as to try to live up to what I have learned. Of
course, I have to earn my living, but it is rather hard to be
limited to illustration.. *.~
To Ethel JIennewill Brown.
"February 15, 19 11.
Already the spring is beginning to approach-one
feels it in the air. It is not like the spring of America, when
the south wind comes up from the Caribbean Islands, and
makes you think of foreign parts; but it is j ust a balmy
glow that seems to cover and embrace. everything. 2
To Stanley A rthurs.
"April 24, 1911I.
We do not know in America how beautiful fifty
generations of culture will make a country. You have to
see the surroundings of Florence in springtime for that.
The quaint sights of the peasantry doing their work-the
men ploughing with a single-handed plough; and once we
saw a man and a woman dragging a plough, while another
man directed it. Of course the soil is very light and generous, or they could not do it. It is all exceedingly beautiful, and all that I want now is plenty of work to keep me
busy. 1. *.
To Stanley Artliurs from San Domenico.
"August 5, 1911.
Isuppose you saw that Abbey died after an operation in London. It came' as a great shock of surprise, for
I had not even known that he was sick. I wish I could get
some further particulars of it.
Since writing to you I have been ill with renal
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