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" The ' Poet Office London Directory' is indeed a triumph of energy, enterprise, and combined talents of many orders, to which, upon reflection, every one will be ready to assign the merit it deserves "—Morning Advertiser, Nov. 19, 1865. " There has been competition, but it has passed away; for the ' Post O ffi ce Directory' has been too carefully and sedulously edited, too prompt in its intelligence, too simple in its plan, and too judicious in its clasaitications, to admit of successful rivalry.' —Morning Herald, Nov. 12, 1855. "An indi-peusible necessity, not only in the counting-houses of the mercantile part of the oommunity, but also in the halls of the great and fashionable."—Morning Chronicle, N0v.16, 1855. " The ' Post Office Directory' has made its appearance this year without a rival in the field ; but the absence of competition does not appear to have led the publishers to bestow less care upon the preparation of the work." —Morning Post. Nov. 50,1855. In a metropolis so vast as London a correct guide is in- valuable, and this book, dealing not only with the commercial classes, but with all the residents in Loudon, supplies a daily need."—Daily News, Dec. 17, DM. " A wonderful work, becoming every successive year more and more wonderful—altogether the hugest and the most accurate of all our popular compilations—at once official, commercial, postal, legal, political, and topographical !"—Sun, Nov. 10,1855. "On the whole, the extent and quality of the information con tained in the volume has, as far as we know, never been equalled in a publication of the kind."—Globe, Nov. 15, 1855. "' The Post Office London Directory.'—The annual wonder, the title of which we have prefixed, has just appeared, and, on the present occasion, it has appeared without a rival, having in this year driven every competitor from the field. Even they who, like ourselves, dislike monopoly, acknowledge the justice of monopoly fairly won by decided excellence."—Standard, Nov. 18,1855 "l'he fame of ' Kelly's London Directory' is too well estab lished, its pretensions to be what it professes too thoroughly justified, and its comprehensiveness too immense, to admit of any other consequence than disastrous loss to the speculator who would blit.dly hope to supplant it."—Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, Nov. 23, 1855. "Even as there is no city in the world which can compare with the metropolis as the abode of aristocracy and commerce, so it is equally beyond dispute that there is but one ' Directory." —Church and State Gazette, Nov. 16, 1835. "The whole work exhibits a mass of accurate information that is truly wonderful to contemplate."—At sax, Nov, 17, 1853. " There is an old joke about the man who sat down patiently to read through a dictionary, and complained of the variety of its subjects. What would he have said to the Post Office Directory of BM, with its pregnant line about everybody, every trade, every profession, and every idler in this huge wen of mor tality who can write himself down respectable !"—Be/I's Weekly Messenger, Nov. 17, 1?-56. " If any one would really understand in what consists the strength of London, let him study the ' Post Office Directory.'" —Britannia, Nov. 17, 1355. "The opponent of the production before us has ceased to exist, it appearing that, even after the collection of the informa tion for next year, and the work being in type, the sale would be insufficient to repay the mere expense of printing. The ' Post Office Directory' is now alone in the held, but we are glad to see that the exertions of the proprietors are undiminished."—Coart Journal, Nov. 17, 1855. "The 'Post Office Directory' has become a work of national importance. It has been said we could not afford to lose our Timex—the same observation applies to our 'Post Office three tory.' "—Hero paths Journal, Nov. 17, 1663. " The proprietors of this work have now the field to them selves; but that they have not relaxed in their exertions on that account is fully evident from the completeness of the Directory for the coming year."—Mustrated Loudon News, Nov. 17, 1855. "Still swelling its dimensions as the ever-increasing area of the vast metropolis increases, this bulky volume presents itself as en annual visitor on our library table."—John BuU, Nov. 17,1855. "In noticing in all its details, in the most favourable manner, this valuable and highly successful volume, we may casually remark that the year 1856 will witness its publication unopposed by attempted competition—a work of similar character, though by no means equal in correctness of arrangement and detail, having, atter an ephemeral existence, entailing enormous loss to its projectors, been at length abandoned. This was a result which, we think, might have been easily foreseen ; for it appears to us beyond question that the sale of so exclusive and peculiar a work as the ' London Directory' will never repay the expense of preparing two such publications, which, if accurate, must be counterparts of each other."—Mining Journal, Nov. 17, 1835. " Extent, variety, and accuracy of information, so far as we have had occasion to test it, is not the only feature of the book. Its production is a typographical curiosity. '—Spectator, Nov. 17, 1655. "This wonderful volume is a proof that the work of organisa tion and administration can be performed by Englishmen with such admirable completeness as to amount to perfection itself. Kelly's Directory was always unrivalled, but it is now without a competitor, and we never expect to see another enter the lista." —Era, Nov. 18, 1865. " The' Post Office London Directory' for the year 1856, a copy of which we have just received, is certainly one of the literary phenomena of the age. For an increase in its bulk we have no wish It is now a gigantic tome, although its style of binding renders it easy of use."—Sunday Times, Nov. 18, 1855. " The tine map that accompanies it embraces an increased area, and considerable additions have been made to the book. It enjoys a deserved reputation never achieved by any work of its class, and London may be proud of its standard Directory."— Weekly Timex, N0v.18,1655. - - • " Every householder in London, whether in trade, and every person belonging to any profession, or employed in the service of the Crown, has an opportnnity of testing for himself the ac curacy of the work, and we believe that the result of their inquiry will lead them to concur with us in the opinion that the 'Post Office Directory' is one of the marvels of the present age." —Observer, Nov. 10, 1855. " We can conceive of no better representation of the superfi cies, as there is certainly no better guide to the contents of London than the Directory just named; now the only publica tion of the kind."—N'owconforsitst, Nov. 21, 1805. "As we, in common with moat people, prophesied would happen, so it has come to pass. The rival Directory has given up a battle in which victory was scarcely to be won. But what of the future of this wonderful book? As it lies on its side it stands already some two hands high, and to spread out the map implies the covering of an ordinary table."—Examiner. Nov. 24, 180. .~~ SATURDAY,