IF^ The Germans have held another national festival. Herr Bandd,
a Hanoverian sculptor of merit, has at length completed his life's labour, a colossal statue, 45 feet high, of Hermann, the German leader who, according to Tacitus, defeated Yams, and drove back Rome and civilisation from the forests. The statue is placed on the summit of a hill in Lippe-Detmold, and with uplifted and threatening sword looks over the plain where Varies lost his legions. It was inaugurated on the 16th inst. by the German Emperor in person, amidst an assemblage of some 40,000 persons from every part of Germany, whose enthusiasm was most marked. -"The Court Marshal of Lippe introduced the sculptor to the Emperor, who shook him warmly by the hand." Germany has now nothing in the way of honour to wish for, unless it be per- chance a statue raised in her honour by people who are not Ger- mans. When will the world vote a laurel crown to Hermann? That would be a triumph.
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