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

FRUITFUL ASSOCIATIONS
"'D.: Well-now-I think that is too much. I'll give
you eighteen.
"'P. D. of an A.: Oh yes; I made a mistake; it was
eighteen.
"'D.: Well, I'll give you fifteen.'
"Mr. Alden, the Editor of Harper's Monthly, is in my
eyes, a strikingly handsome man of about fifty. He has an
unkempt look though, his hair and beard are shaggy and
look constantly tousled. He has very regular features
and brown eyes deep set under rather heavy brows. He,
too, has an absent-minded manner, but not a weak manner
like Mr. Drake. He speaks very little, and when he does
talk he contorts his face as though the act of talking was
a painful labor and effort with him. But he, too, is very
encouraging and kind. Last time I was down there he
rather surprised me by coming into the art rooms and joining
Mr. Parsons in talking with me for nearly half an hour
about American art and artists and what not. Rather a complimentary thing for a poor devil of an artist like me.
"Mr. Abbey is a little man about twenty-six years old.
He is a comical little fellow, but quite the gentleman; he
wears glasses, and being troubled with dyspepsia, has a
habit of grinning in rather a ferocious manner.
"We have picked up another friend in our building here,
Mr. Marble, a tall, good-looking, blue-eyed fellow with a
short, thick, blond beard. He is a good-hearted, goodnatured fellow with considerable talent. He came over to
our rooms here from the rear building and made a watercolor sketch of Jenny when she posed for the first design
in my Spanish story.
"The other artists in his part of the building are a dis[SI1