THE ADAMS ST. GAUDENS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—In-the Spectator last week is a letter which tells us that the St. Gaudens in Washington is from henceforth the Adams monu- ment; that now both husband and wife are in charge of that mysterious figure at Rock Creek. The writer of the letter remarks on the. life-long_ friendihip of Adams and John Hay. Hay's opinion of this monument erected to his friend's wife is expressed in these few fine words :-
"It is. full of poetry and suggestion; infinite wisdom, a past without beginning and a future without end, a repose after limit- less experience, a peace to which nothing matters—all are em- bodied in this austere and beautiful face and form."
These words of appreciation. were sent to me by the late Henry James when James had heard of Mr. Choate's oiler of a replica of the Lincoln of St. Gaudens for the Canning enclosure at Wait-
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