Literature, Science, Music, Drama, And The Fine Arts.

An Eleanor cross has been erected in Manchester to the memory of the late philanthropic Countess of Ellesmere . Miss Charlotte Cushman is at present at Malvern . She meditates another tour with her version of " Meg Merrilies . " One of the most celebrated surgeons of

BerlinPro-, fessor Boehm , has died from blood poisoning , contracted while dissecting . A new volume of poems by Mr . Gerald Massey , entitled "A Tale of Eternity , and other Poems , " will shortly appear .

Mr Kinglake , it is reported , is going out to the Crimea to study the battle-ground again , with which he is already so familiar . Messrs . Macmillan are about to bring out a new weekly illustrated journal of science , entitiled Nature . The first number may be expected to appear in October . An effort is being madetorevie the National

Eisteddfod upon a " purely AVelsh" basis , the idea of regenerating the late Eisteddfod being abandoned . Mr . AVynne , in preparing the catalogue of theHengwrt MSS ., in the Peniarth Library , has found a quarto volume , entitled " Legendary Lives of Saints , " written in Cornish . Albert Durer's icture"The Death of the Virgin "

p , , which had disappeared for so long a period , is now to be seen above the high altar in St . Wolfgang's Church ( on Lake Wolfgang , in Upper Austria ) . Macmillan ' Magazine for September contains an article on the Life of Lady Byron and the causes of her separation from Lord Byron , by Mrs . Beecher Stowe , based

on the communication of Lady Byron herself . The prize of £ 4 , 000 offered by the Emperor of the French for the completest work of art executed in France within the past five years has been adjudged to M . Due , architect for the new Palais de Justice ' . The architect of the new opera-house , it has been said , would have received the prize had his building been finished .

An extraordinary faerie piece has been brought out at the Gaife Theatre , Paris , entitled the "White Cat . " About £ 10 , 000 has been spent in getting it up . The principal character is played by Mdlle . Theresa , who is supposed to be transformed into a variety of bipeds and quadrupeds , and finally , into a magnificent tabitha , under which guise she sings appropriate songs .

In the first portion of the library of the late Mr . C . T . Swanston , Q . O ., just sold at Puttick and Simpson ' s , in Leicester Square , there was a fine copy of the rare first edition of Shakespeare , printed in 1623 . It wanted two leaves , and had some other trifling defects . After a smart competition it realised the large price of £ 338 . The purchaser was Mr . Quaritch , of Piccadilly .

A remarkable MS . is now at Bury St . Edmonds . It is a volume which originally belonged to Mr . Ffoulkes , the antiquary . It contains an interesting account , addressed by Newton himself to Ffoulkes , of the discovery of the power of gravitation , Nothing is here said about the fall of an apple having anything to do with it ; in fact , the account differs in many respects from the ordinary tradition .

The excavations in the Farnese gardens on Mount Palatine , at Rome , the property of Napoleon III ., have brought to light some of the ground chambers of a senatorial house , which , having been built into the foundation of the palace of Tiberius , is pronounced to date from the Republic . The walls are embellished with beautiful frescoes , which prove that tbe Romans of that period had attained great excellence in the art of ornamentation .

Literature, Science, Music, Drama, And The Fine Arts.

A " stenographic press , " for reporting speeches as they are delivered , has been invented . Speakers themselves would be the sufferers if this machine were to come into use , as there could be no amending of the speeches by the reporters . Mr . Murray is about to publish a new literary journal under the title of The Academy . Dr . W . Smith will be

one of the principal contributors . The Telegraph thinks there is some cause for the anxiety which is felt about Dr . Livingstone , not that ib fears the doctor is dead . The truth seems to lie between the theory that ho is the captive of some African chief , or that he has turned away westwards from the Lake

Tanganyika—having , perhaps , found a clue to the origin and water sheds of the Congo river . Mrs . Burton , the wife of the well-known traveller , writing in the Telegraph , inclines to think that Livingstone is a prisoner at the town of Lucenda or Lunda , the capital of the King of Oazembe . The Spectatorin commenting upon Mr . Boucicault ' s-

, defence of his new play , " Formosa , " remarks truly that it is not so much the introduction of Anonyma in a play as the way in which she is introduced . There would , it says . " be no reason for her presentation provided the whole truth were told , and Anonyma presented , not in an attractive garb and obtaining tUe sympathies of the audience , but in her real character , either as an

utterlywretched woman who has sold herself to the devil without getting the price , or as a vulgar impudent slut , with the manners of a kitchen-wench and the moralsof a thief . "

The Wallace. Monument.

THE WALLACE . MONUMENT .

( From the Cambria Daily Leader . ") Every reader of British history is familiar with the name of Sir William Wallace , but it is Scotchmen only who can appreciate to the fullest extent the character and work of the Scotch hero AVallace , the central figure of one of the most interestingif also one of the darkest

, periods in the history of Scotland , and although much that is mythical has been interwoven with the history of the patriot , there is sufficient reality about him aud his doings to elevate him to the position of one of the greatest of his country ' s sons . It was natural that Scotland should have desired to raise some fitting memorial of such a man , and although the idea of a Wallace

monument was first laughed at , the Scots , with that perseverance which is one of their most prominent characteristics ,, proceeded with their work . Some account of the origin and progress of this undertaking may not be uninteresting to readers in Wales ; for nationality is a sentiment which AA * eIshmen can appreciate as well as any people under the sun . The proposal of rearing a national

monument to Wallace on the Abbey Craig , near Stirling , was first suggested by the Rev . Bro . Charles Rogers in his work on " The Bridge of Allen , " in 1851 . In 1856 Bro . Rogers , as secretary of a Provisional Committee , prevailed on the late Earl of Elgin to preside at a national , meeting in the King ' s Park , Stirling , when the undertaking was formally inauguated . He then held public

meetings in different towns , and succeeded in awakening , considerable interest in his enterprise . The sum of £ 7 , 000 having been secured and some internal opposition surmounted , the foundation-stone of the monument was laid on the 24 th June , 1861 , the late Duke of Athole presiding at the masonic ceremony , and the late Bro . Sir Archibald Alison , Bart .,. presiding at the subsequent banquet . Building operations were occasionally suspended for lack of funds , but at length the needful amount having been forthcoming , the monument has been com-