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
'baulker' or a 'bolter.' I should cut rather a pretty spectacle,
I don't think, in Central Park if such were the case. I rather
think, upon the whole, I shall plan a 'business engagement'
on Friday morning at ten o'clock."
"November 22, 1876.
"I received a letter from home yesterday morning telling
me father was in town and would be at the Merchants'.
I was working at the 'Queen Mab' picture all morning and
with much better success than the first study I made for it.
In fact it seems to me I am getting a rather good effect for
me. I met father at noon and we had quite a pleasant little
chat together after dinner. He seems quite anxious that
I should be making money, and reiterated thy good advice
to stick at drawing. I don't know whether it is best or not
but it seems to me to be preferable to throw present prosperity into the great lottery of life, and who knows?-some
man must draw the prize; at least it seems preferable to try
for that thousandth chance, bitter as the disappointment attendant upon failure would be, than 'to fatten like the
stall-fed ox' in present prosperity. Immediately after
leaving father I returned home and continued paying
attentions to Queen Mab.
"Look in the advertisement of Scribner's Monthly, for
1877, on one of the first advertising sheets of that periodical
and among the list of Home Life and Travel and in
an honorable position, behold 'An Unknown American
Island'-that's me."
"November 23, 1876.
"Queen Mab, the'hussy, jilted me at the last moment,
and turned out to be a worthless creature after all. Should
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