Adam and Eve on L. I.

Dreaming forest, flowery bush, red cliff, turquoise sea; that is Montauk Point, Long Island, N. Y. In Montauk, Childe Hassam, famed artist, paints pictures of the countryside. Last week, he exhibited a group of them in Manhattan. It is always afternoon in Montauk; there whisper trees more shadowy than any that ever stooped their boughs in Eden; gods live there and fairies, so says the brush of Mr. Hassam. Diana as Spring bursts arrowy-footed through the wood, paling with her whiteness the white dogwood blossom; in The Grove of Aphrodite nymphs move to pipes unseen, sentineled by poplars; Dryads dance upon a blowy hill against a far horizon. It is not strange, then, that one of Mr. Hassam's canvasses should depict no less a scene than Adam and Eve Walking out in Montauk in the Early Spring. Hand in hand they go, down a long forest corridor, shades of red and russet deepening round them (red for Adam,, whose name means "Red Earth"), naked little figures wandering among blossoms and friendly beasts in Montauk, L. I.