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CONTENTS.

  Notes:--                                                   Page
    Division of Intellectual Labour                           489
    On a Passage in "Love's Labour's Lost"                    490
    Treatise of Equivocation                                  490
    Parallel Passages, by Albert Cohn                         491
    Minor Notes:--True or False Papal Bulls--Burning Bush
      of Sinai--The Crocodile--Umbrella--Rollin's Ancient
      History, and History of the Arts and Sciences--MSS.
      of Locke--The Letter [gh]--A Hint to Publishers         491
  Queries:--
    Bibliographical Queries                                   492
    Minor Queries:--Meaning of "Rab. Surdam"--Abbot Richard
      of Strata Florida--Cardinal Chalmers--Armorial
      Bearings--"Fiat Justitia"--Painting by C. Bega--Darcy
      Lever Church--R. Ferrer--Writers on the
      Inquisition--Buckden--True Blue--Passage in
      "Hamlet"--Inventor of a secret Cypher--Fossil Elk of
      Ireland--Red Sindon--Lights on the Altar--Child's
      Book by Beloe                                           493
  Replies:--
    Mercenary Preacher, by Henry Campkin                      495
    "The Owl is abroad," by Dr. E.F. Rimbault                 495
    Old St. Pancras Church, by J. Yeowell                     496
    Replies to Minor Queries:--Cardinal Allen's
      Admonition--Bolton's Ace--Portrait of Cardinal
      Beaton--"He that runs may read"--Sir George
      Downing--Burning to Death, or Burning of the
      Hill--The Roscommon Peerage--The Word "after"
      in the Rubric--Disputed Passage in the
      "Tempest"--Lady Compton's Letter--Midwives
      licensed--Echo Song--The Irish Brigade--To save
      one's bacon--"The Times" Newspaper and the Coptic
      Language--Luther's Hymns--Osnaburg Bishopric--Scandal
      against Queen Elizabeth--Pretended reprint of Ancient
      Poetry--Martin Family--Meaning of "Ge-ho"--Lady Norton  497
  Miscellaneous:--
    Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.                    501
    Books and Odd Volumes Wanted                              501
    Notices to Correspondents                                 502
    Advertisements                                            502

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Notes.


DIVISION OF INTELLECTUAL LABOUR.

Every one confesses, I believe, the correctness of the _principle_
called "Division of labour." But if any one would form an adequate
estimate of the ratio of the effect produced, in this way, to the
labour which is expended, let him consult Dr. Adam Smith. I think he
states, as an example, that a single labourer cannot make more than
ten pins in a day; but if eight labourers are employed, and each of
them performs one of the eight separate processes requisite to the
formation of a pin, there will not merely be eight times the number of
pins formed in a day, but nearly eighty times the number. (Not having
the book by me, I cannot be certain of the exact statistics.)

If this principle is proved, then, to be of such extraordinary
utility, why should it not be made serviceable in other matters
besides the "beaver-like" propensity of amassing wealth and satisfying
our material desires? Why should not your periodical be instrumental
in transferring this invaluable principle to the labours of the
intellectual world? If your correspondents were to send you abstracts
or _precis_ of the books which they read, would there not accrue a
fourfold benefit? viz.:

1. A division of intellectual labour; so that the amount of knowledge
available to each person is multiplied in an increasing ratio.

2. Knowledge is thus presented in so condensed a form as to be more
easily comprehended at a glance;