Howard Pyle was an American author best known for his books for young people. Pyle wrote and illustrated books about pirates and King Arthur, and this book is about the Dark Ages. Though the book is meant for children it is considered an excellent read for all ages.

Howard Pyle was an American author best known for his books for young people. Pyle wrote and illustrated books about pirates and King Arthur, and this book is about the Dark Ages. Though the book is meant for children it is considered an excellent read for all ages.

Howard Pyle was an American author best known for his books for young people. Pyle wrote and illustrated books about pirates and King Arthur, and this book is about the Dark Ages. Though the book is meant for children it is considered an excellent read for all ages.

Howard Pyle was an American author best known for his books for young people. Pyle's book Twilight Land is a collection of 16 haunting fairy tales.

Howard Pyle was an American author best known for his books for young people. Pyle wrote and illustrated books about pirates and King Arthur, and this book is about the Dark Ages. Though the book is meant for children it is considered an excellent read for all ages.

King Arthur is one of the most famous names in history, despite his existence as mere legend. Despite that, his name still evokes visions of fantasy, chivalry, bravery, and more even today, and Arthur remains a pop culture fixture around the globe. Of course, Arthur, Lancelot, and all of the other figures were made famous in various Arthurian Legends written by writers like Chretien de Troyes. Arthur came to embody the ideals of the Middle Ages: strength, chivalry, bravery, and more. Along the way, his Excaliber sword, the Holy Grail, his queen, and more have all become household words....

In the pleasurable warmth the heart feels in answer to tales of derring-do Nelson's battles are all mightily interesting, but, even in spite of their romance of splendid courage, I fancy that the majority of us would rather turn back over the leaves of history to read how Drake captured the Spanish treasure ship in the South Sea, and of how he divided such a quantity of booty in the Island of Plate (so named because of the tremendous dividend there declared) that it had to be measured in quart bowls, being too considerable to be counted.

The year 1400 opened with more than usual peacefulness in England. Only a few months before, Richard II-weak, wicked, and treacherous-had been dethroned, and Henry IV declared King in his stead. But it was only a seeming peacefulness, lasting but for a little while; for though King Henry proved himself a just and a merciful man-as justice and mercy went with the men of iron of those days-and though he did not care to shed blood needlessly, there were many noble families who had been benefited by King Richard during his reign, and who had lost somewhat of their power and prestige from the...

"Yes," said Jacob, when she had told him all that the Herr Mayor had said to her, "that is a hard thing to do; but what one man has done, another man can." So he shouldered his gun, and started away into the world to learn to be as clever a huntsman as the Herr Mayor had said. He plodded on and on until at last he fell in with a tall stranger dressed all in red. "Where are you going, Jacob?" said the tall stranger, calling him by his name, just as if he had eaten pottage out of the same dish with him.

We-scribes and pharisees-have been vilified and abused for nineteen hundred years because we acted as the circumstances of our lives compelled us. The fact seems to be overlooked that we were not born publicans and sinners, but upright and virtuous citizens, and that it was out of the question for us to desert our own class and to ally ourselves with those whose only recommendation appeared to lie in the fact that they were poor and lowly, or else that they were social outcasts and sinners. We could hardly be held to have been more worthy of respect if we had violated our traditions of order...