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
summer; she then very kindly invited me to call upon her
at No. ioo East Thirty-second Street, and to conclude our
conversation I said I should be most happy.
"I had hoped to meet young Mr. Inness there but failed
in my object as he did not come. As I said before, I should
like to cultivate his acquaintance though the opportunities
are not very promising. He attends life class in the morning instead of evening and rarely comes to the Sketch Club.
"I' begin to fear that the life class isn't doing me very
much good and as it costs me ten dollars per month, I might
as well invest that much in having a studio which would do
me a vast deal more good."
"December 12, 1876.
Mr. Drake liked my design for 'Despair' very
much. He said my pen-and-ink work was improving, as,
indeed, I feel that it is. I am far, very far, behind others
yet, though. I should like, if I get a studio, to make a
finished pen-and-ink picture for the next Academy Exhibition, some single figure that would not be beyond my scope.
That sounds conceited, but there is nothing gained without
an effort, and who knows but that I might make a lucky
hit? At least there would be no harm in trying..0*
"I am not attending the Academy any longer because
I don't think it was doing me any good. There were no
professors there and the students had to go on their own
hook, so to speak.. *.
"Last week the work was not so very slim, and thee
needn't think that I am getting into a state of hopeless
poverty because I don't tell thee every cent I make. So
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