410 Art and Science: a Contrasted Parallel. exiftentis folummodo oriri potuit."-Principia, Ed. 3tia, pp. 528-29; London, 1726. "Nous accordons à la raifon le pouvoir de nous démontrer l'existence du Créateur, de nous inftruire de fes attributs infinis et de fes rapports avec l'ensemble des êtres; mais par le fentiment nous entrons en quelque forte en commerce plus intime avec lui, et fon action fur nous eft plus immédiate et plus préfente. Nous profeffons un égal éloignement et pour le mysticisme-qui, facrifiant la raifon au fentiment et l'homme à Dieu, fe perd dans les fplendeurs de l'infini-et pour le panthéisme, qui refufe à Dieu les perfections mêmes de l'homme, en admettant fous ce nom on ne fait quel être abftrait, privé de confcience et de liberté. Grâce à cette confcience de nous-mêmes et de notre libre arbitre, fur laquelle fe fondent à la fois et notre méthode et notre philofophie tout entière, ce dieu abftrait et vague dont nous venons de parler, le dieu du panthéifme devient à jamais impoffible, et nous voyons à fa place la Providence, le Dieu libre et faint que le genre humain adore, le législateur du monde moral, la fource en même temps que l'objet de cet amour infatiable du beau et du bien qui fe mêle au fond de nos âmes à des paffions d'un autre ordre."-Dictionnaire des Sciences Philofophiques, par une Société des Profeffeurs et Savans. Preface, pp. viii., ix. THE BLACK DWARF'S BONES. THES HESE gnarled, ftunted, useless old bones, were all that David Ritchie, the original of the Black Dwarf, had for left femur and tibia, and we have merely to look at them and add poverty, to know the mifery fummed up in their poffeffion. They seem to have been blighted and rickety. The femur is very short and flight, and fingularly loose in texture; the tibia is dwarfed, but denfe and ftout. They were given to me many years ago by the late Andrew Ballantyne, Efq. of Woodhouse (the Wudefs, as they call it on Tweedfide), and their genuineness is unquestionable. As anything must be interesting about one once fo forlorn and miferable, and whom our great wizard has made immortal, I make no apology for printing the following letters from my old friend, Mr. Craig, long furgeon in Peebles, and who is now spending his evening, after a long, hard, and useful day's work, in the quiet vale of Manor, within a mile or two of "Cannie Elfhie's" cottage. The picture he gives is very affecting, and fhould make us all thankful that we are "wifelike." There is much that is additional to Sir Walter's account, in his "Author's Edition" of the Waverley Novels. "HALL MANOR, Thursday, May 20, 1858. "My DEAR SIR, SIR, David Ritchie, alias Bowed Davie, was born at Easter Happrew, in the parish of Stobo, in the year 1741. He was brought to Woodhoufe, in the parish of Manor, when very young. His father was a labourer, and occupied a cottage on that farm; his mother, Anabel Niven, was a delicate woman, feverely afflicted with rheumatism, and could not take care of him when an infant. To this |