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LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. 



" WTien found, malce a note of." — Captain Cuttlk. 



No. 60.] 



Saturdat, December 21. 1850. 



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CONTENTS. 

 NoTCS : — 



Divisinn of Intellectual Labour . - - - 



On a PassasR in •' Love's Labour's Lost" - ^ 



Treatise ol' K((niv"cation ---..- 

 Parallel Passages, l)y Albeit Cohiv 

 Minor Notes:— True or Praise Papal Bulls— Burning 

 B .sli of Sinai — Tlie Crocodile —Umbrella — Rollin's 

 Ancient History, and History of tlie Arts ami Sciences 

 _ MSS. of Locke — The Letter 5 — A Hint to Pub- 

 lishers -..---- 



QOERIES : — 



Bibliographical Queries . ^ - - - 



Minor Queries: — Meaning of '*Rab Surdam " — Abbot 

 Riihard of Slata Florida — Cardinal Chalmers — Ar- 

 morial Bearings— "Fiat Justitia"— Fainting by C. Bega 



— Darcy Lever ' hurcli — R. Ferrer -Writers on tlie 

 Inquisition — Buckilen — True Blue — Passage in 

 •' Hamlet " — Inventor of a secret Cypher — Fossil 

 Elk o( Ireland — Red Sindon — Lights on the Altar — 

 Child's B0i)k iiy Beloe - - - - 



Replies: — 



Mercenary Preacher, by Henry Campkin 

 •• The Owl is abroad," by Dr. E. F. Rimbault - 

 Old St. I'ancras Church, by J. Yeowell . - - 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Cardinal Allen's Admom. 

 tion — Bolton's Ace — Portrait of Cardinal Beaton — 

 " He that runs may read" — Sir George Downing — 

 Burning to Death, or Burnins of the Hill - The Ros- 

 common Peerage — The Word " after" in the Rubric 



— Disputed Passage in the " Tempest "— Lady Comp- 

 ton's Letter- Midwlves 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 Elizali-th— Pretcnd'-d Reprint of Ancient 

 Poetry — Martin Family— Meaning oj' " Ge-ho " — 

 Lady Norton . - - - - 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, Sales, Cat.alngues', &c. - 

 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 



Notices to Correspondents . - - 



Advertisements - - - - - 



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DIV7SIOS OF INTELLECTUAL LABOUR. 



Every one confesses, I helieve, the correctness 

 of the principle called " l>ivision of lalmur." But 

 if any one would form an adequate estiniiite of the 

 ratio of the efl'ect producetl, in tliis way, to the 

 lalxmr which is e-xpended, let him consult Dr. 

 Adam Smith. I tliiiik he states, as an exam|)le, 

 tliat a siiif^le laijourer cannot make more than ten 

 pins in a day ; hut if ei;iht 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 num- 

 ber. (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 satisfy- 

 ing our material desires ? Why should not your 

 periodical be instrumental in transferring this in- 

 valuable 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 ; so that your readers can with greater 

 facility construct or understand the theories de- 

 ducible from the whole circle of human knowledge. 



3. Anthoi'S and inquiring men could tell, before 

 expending days on tiie perusal of large volumes, 

 whether the particulars which these books contain 

 would be suitable to the object they have in view. 



4. The unfair criticisms which are made, and the 

 erroueims notions diffused by interested reviewers, 

 would in a great measure be corrected, in the 

 minds, at least, of your readers. 



You might object that suoh precis would be as 

 pai'tial as the reviews of which the wliole literary 

 world complain. But, in the first place, these ab- 

 stracts would be written by literary men who are 

 not dependent on booksellers for their livcliliooil, 

 and would not therefore be likely to write up 

 trashy books or detract from the merit of valuable 

 works, for tlie sake of ihe book trade. And be- 

 sides, your (iorrespondents give their artit-Ies under 

 their signature, so that one could bo openly cor- 

 rected by another who had read the same work. 

 Again, it is only the leading idea of tlie book which 

 you would re<piire, and no attendant praise or 

 blame, neither eulogistic exordium nor useless 

 appeals to the reader. Tlie author, mm-eover, 

 might send you the skeleton of his own book, an<l 



Vol. ir. — No. go. 



