ary 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