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

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her age. Do, by all means, keep her in strict harness,
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"Says Mr. Drake, the art editor, 'If you are going to try
to make an artist sufficiently good to illustrate extensively
for us, you'll have to give up society entirely for the present,
and devote your whole attention to study.' They desire
young men on their force, and they have one now who is
illustrating for them, having some designs in the holiday
St. Nicholas, which will probably be in Wilmington on
Monday. He has illustrated an article called 'The Horse
Hotel' in a way that has gained him much praise. He is
an indefatigable worker and puts me to the blush whenever
I hear of him.'1
"I have been thinking lately that stories from the life of
Robin Hood might be an interesting thing for St. Nicholas.
Children are very apt to know of Robin Hood without any
very clear ideas upon his particular adventures. And then
how gloriously they would illustrate. If thee would lend
me thy volume of Percy and express it on to me, I would
take great care of it and would make the attempt. I think,
if IJam not mistaken, that his life is incomplete in that
work;i does thee know any other one work wherein he appears in his early history and adventures?
"I wonder how long it will be that I shall have to crawl
in writing before I can begin to walk? At times I feel discouraged and then again the feeling rises strong within me
that there is something in me that will produce, perhaps,
worthy fruit in time. At present I am trammelled more
than I can describe with stiffness in manner, crudeness in
'Ed'ward James Kelly, who began and did considerable work as an illus-.
trator, but who has since turned his attention entirely to sculpture.
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