Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

Mr . Bohn is commencing a neiv series of reprints , under the head of the Fnglish Gentleman's Library . Dr . Charles Mackay , in his recently published volume , Jacobite Songs and Ballads of Scotland , relates the folloiving anecdote of the famous Miss Jenny Cameron : —When a summons ivas sent hy Lochiel to her nephew , she set off to Charles's head-quarters , at the head of two hundred and fifty followers ofthe clan well armed .

She herself was dressed in a sea-green riding-habit , with a scarlet lapell , tiimed with gold , her hair tied behind in loose buckles , with a velvet cap , and scarlet feathers ; she rode on a bay gelding , decked ivith green furnishing , which was fringed with gold ; instead of a whip , she carried a naked sivord in her hand , and in this equipage arrived at the camp . A female officer was a very extraordinary sight , and it being reported to the Prince , he went out of the lines to meet the heroine . Miss Jenny rode up to him Avithout the least

symptom of embarrassment , gai-e him a soldier-like salute , and then addressed him in words to the folloAving effect : "That as her nepheiv ivas not able to attend the royal standard , she had raised his men and now brought them to his Highness ; that she believed them ready to hazard their lives in his cause , and though at present they were commanded hy a ivoman , yet she hoped they had nothing womanish about them ; for she found that so glorious a cause had raised in her breast every manly thought , and quite

extinguished the woman ; AA-hat an effect then , ' added she , ' must it have on these who have no feminine fear to combat , and are free from the incumbrance of female dress ? These men , Sir , are yours ; they have devoted themselves to your service ; they bring you hearts as well as hands ; I can folloiv them no further , bufc I shall pray for your success . " The folloiving song from this collection will be doubly curious to the Mason , as showing the bitter hate , not entirely without reason , which the Jacobites entertained to Bro .

H . R . H . the Duke of Cumberland ' : — " Geordie sits in Charlie's chair Bonnie laddie , Highland laddie ; Deil tak' him gin he bide there , My bonnie laddie , Highland laddie ; Charlie yet shall mount the throne , Bonnie laddie , Highland laddie ;

Weel ye ken it is his own , My bonnie laddie , Highland laddie . " Weary fa' tlie Loivland loon , Bonnie laddie , Highland laddie , Wha took frae him the British crOAA-n , My bonnie laddie , Highland laddie , But leeze me on the kilted clans ,

Bonnie laddie , Highland laddie , That fought for him at Prostonpans , My bonnie laddie , Highland laddie . " Ken ye the neiA-s I have to tell , Bonnie laddie , Highland laddie ? Cumberland ' s awa to hell , My bonnie UvOUUeHighland laddie

, , When be came to the Stygian shore , Bonnie laddie , Highland laddie , The deil himsel' wi' fright did roar , My bonnie . laddie , Highland laddie . " When Charon grim came out to him , Bonnie laddie , Highland laddie ; Yc ' re welcome hereye devil ' s limb

, ; My bonnie laddie , Highland laddie , 'They pat on him a philabeg , Bonnie laddie , Highland laddie , And up Ins doup they ca'd a peg , My bonnie laddie , Highland laddie .

" HOAV he did skip and he did roar Bonnie laddie , Highland laddie , The deils ne ' er saw sie sport before , My bonnie laddie , Highland laddie , 'They took him neist to Satan's ha' , Bonnie laddie , Highland laddie , To lilt it ivi' his grandpapa , My bonnie laddie , Highland laddie .

" The deil sat girnin in the neuk , " Bonnie laddie , Highland laddie , Riving sticks to roast the ( hike , My bonnie laddie , Highland laddie . They pat him neist upon a spit , Bonnie laddie , Highland laddie , And roasted him baith head and feet , My bonnie laddie , Highland laddie .

" Wi' scalding brunstane and wi' fat , Bonnie laddie , Highland laddie , They flamm'd his carcase iveel Ai-i' that , Bonnie kiddie , highland laddie , They ate him up baith stoop and roop , Bonnie laddie , Highland laddie ; And that's the gate they serv'd the duke , My bonnie laddie , Highland laddie . "

A fund is being raised for purchasing a portion of the draivings of Flaxman , which are to be placed in the Flaxman Gallery of University College , London , where the original models of the great sculptor are at present preserved . Mr . TJrquhart gives the folloiving really artistic description of the celebrated Cedars of Lebanon in his last work , Tlie Lebanon ;

a History and a Diary •'— " The whole of a knoll , a couple of hundred feet in height , and perhaps half a mile across , is covered with the grove , some trees of which are scattered on the side of an adjoining one . You approach them hy the gully between the tivo . There were trees , but nothing in them apparently to strike ; no graphic features which belong to the rare and beautiful ; neither the tent-like s « 'eep of the Tanin , nor the spreading roof of the SnoAvbnr , nor the aspiring plume of the Deodara or the Arar , or

the feathery tuft of the Palm . There was neither the sombre gloom of an impenetrable forest , the massive grandeur of the solitary oak , nor fche airy shadow of the vaulted platani . They appeared nothing but firs , remarkable neither in form nor dimensions . The only peculiarity was the horizontal bars of foliage , from which stood up , like bobbins on a reel , the cones ; not large and rude as those of the fruit-hearing pine , but smoothed and systematically formed like perns of brown silk . I wondered in what

consisted their fame , and wandered amid their stems till I had become familiar with my vexation ; ivhen before mo came a block protruding from the snow . It appeared a mass of rock , but it was timber ; and raising my eyes , I found myself beloiv a Cedar of Lebanon ! The rock-like trunk might be twenty feefc broad , and as many high ; then out from it grew seven ancient trees , as if seven oaks of the forest had been joined at their base , and fitted to a stem . Each of these trees or branches ivas seventy or eighty feet in height , and , nearly at their summit , five or six feet in girth . The mass of timber ivas enormous ; and to it the foliage , disposed in bars like the yards of a ship , bore no proportion—their scanty

and methodical lines strangely contrasting with the giant and distorted limbs . Who could have imagined a Cedar like this ; this , the emblem of the maiden of Israel ? Yet I shared the fervent instinct of the mountaineer , ivhich found this name to call them by — ' Cedars of God . ' On examining a broken bough I found that it resisted the nail , like oak . The rings are so line and close that fifty or sixty did not occupy an inch . The rings were so irregular , that the timber made in one year sometimes equalled the groAvth .

of tAi-elve at another period . The bough I was examining was a fourth or fifth rate one , perhaps a span in diameter ; but on counting its rings , I found it coeval with the Ottoman empire . The branch out of which it greiA ' , rating ifc in like manner , Avas as old as the Norman conquest ; its parent branch again might in the days of Solomon have sprouted from a branch then worthy to sustain an architrave in the 'House of the Forest of Lebanon , ' and which had shot from tbe main branch during the building of the

Pyramids . That mighty branch itself must have been washed with salt-waters in the timo of the deluge , and figured among tho trees ivhich God had already planted ivhen man appeared . Eve might have spun , Adam delved under its branches I have spoken as yet but of one cedar . What then ivas the grove ? It was of trees of the same species indeed , but of ordinary dimensions , and these shot straight up , as we see in the so-called cedars

brought to Kin-ope : there ivas no block and no parting off of branches ; this peculiarity belonged only to the antediluvian breed . The Titans only had the arms of Ih-iareus . KlseAvhere I found more of these vast vegetable polypi .- they are chii-lly on the top of tbe hill , perhaps ten in all . Of these , tivo approach their fall ; one by being burnt at the root , the other breached by the storm . Three more are unsound two only are in their primeand to them

; , it belongs to convey to future times an idea of the giant brood ; if indeed they be not soon killed by the miscreant habit of stripping oil ' tlle bark for fools to write their names . From sheer shame I would not read the disgraceful list—but one struck my eye , for ifc ivas like a placard : it ivas 'Lamai-tine . ' The way these Franks proceed is , to slice oil' the bark ivith u hatchet , and then to smooth the surface of the trunkl- 'or this purpose the ancient trees are

, chosen , and of course it is only at the height of the man and eye that these tablets are prepared . The finest trees are at present tivo-thirds harked , at about six feet from the ground . With the influx of travellers , a feiv years will suffice to ring them completely . No shame restrains that brood , no anathema stays tlteir ^ saeri-