The most costly and colossal memorial ever erected in honor of a national hero was dedicated at Rome on June 4. The statue is itself forty feet high and weighs fifty tons. It is in gilded bronze, and stands against the white marble of a portico five hundred feet long, which has sixteen immense columns, and many fountains, groups of statuary, and gilded decorations. Back of the portico will be a national museum in which will be placed mementos of Italy's struggle for independence. The entire memorial represents thirty years' work and a cost of twenty million dollars. The monument faces the famous Corso, and the statue may be seen a great distance. The chief criticism made against the memorial is that its newness and bigness make it overshadow the remnants of ancient Rome in the midst of which it stands