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Past present. (rereading childhood favorites; Men of Iron by Howard Pyle) (column)

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From: The Nation
Date: 19900326
Author:Mallon, Thomas

Men of Iron, by the novelist and illustrator Howard Pyle 1853-1911), belongs to that category of book known today as the young adult novel, as well as to that more exclusive class of books whose value lies almost totally in being reread rather than read. Men of Iron is listed as my favorite book in my 1963 sixth-grade autograph album John Glenn was my "hero"), and I recently reread it, at a remove of twenty-seven years.

It is the story of Myles Falworth, an inexhaustibly gung-ho lad of the fifteenth century who is out to become a knight not only for the glory of it but also ...

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