The Press.
London, England, 1855-12-15 00:00:00

SATURDAY,

Now publishing, in 2,600 pages Imperial Octavo, price Ha.,
THE POST OFFICE LONDON
DIRECTORY FOR 106.
Most gratifying Reviews of the huge volume have appeared in
all the leading Metropolitan Journals, of which only very short
extracts can be here !rioted,

" In short, this work contains all that can reasonably be required
in a ' Directory, end much inure, probably, than was ever found
iu one before. It may be safely referred to for information upon
everything connected with the metropolis and the elements
which constitute its wealth and importance."—Tintes, December
Bth, 1855.

"The ' Post 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 Resign we
merit it deserves."—Morning Advertiser, Nov. 12,1855.
" There has been competition, but it has passed away; for the
' Post Office Directory' has been too carefully and sedulously
edited, too prompt in its intelligence, too simple In its plan, and
too judicious In its classifications, to admit of successful rivalry."
—Morning Herald, Nov. 12, 1855.
"An iudivensible necessity, not only in the counting-houses
of the mercantile part of the community, 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 Pest, Nov. 30, 18b5.
A wonderful work, becoming every successive year more and
more wonderful—altogether the hugest and the most accurate of
all our popular compilations—atonce 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 ae we know, never been equalled
in a publication of the kind."—t/lobe, Nov. 15, 1855.
" "fhe 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.
16,1855.
" The 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 blindly 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, 11455.

"The whole work exhibits a MUM of accurate information that
is truly wonderful to contemplate."—Atlas, Nov, 17, 1855.
" 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 I'ost Office
Directory of 1558,' 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:"—Beals Weekly
Messenger, Nov. 17, 1e55.
" If any one would really understand in what consists the
strength of London, let him study the ' Post Office Directory.'"
—Britannia, Nov. 1:, 1855.

"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 field, but we are glad to see
that the exertions of the proprietors are undiminished."--Court
Journal, Nov. 17, 1855.
"The 'Poet Office Directory' has become a work of national
importance. It has been said we could not afford to lose our
Tinter—the same observation applies to our Post Office Direc•
tory.' "—Herapath's Journal, Nov. 17, 1855.
'The proprietors of this work have now the field to them-
salve: ; 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."—lllustrated London News, Nov. 17, 1855.
"Still swelling its dimensions as the ever-increasing area of
the vast metropolis increases, this bulky volume presents
itself as an annual visitor on our library table."—Johan Bull,
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, after 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, 1855.
" Extent, variety, and accuracy or 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,
1853.

"This wonderful volume is a proof that the work of organise.
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 lists,"
—Era, Nov. 18, 1855.
" The 'Post Office London Directory' for the year 1855, a coin'
of which we have just received, is certainly one of the lit.arary
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 fine 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 Dizeotory."—
Weekly. Times, Nov. 18,1855.

" E;ery householdei• iu London, whether in trade, and every
person belonging to any profession, or employed in the service
of the Crown, has an opportunity 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 oue of the marvels of the present age."
—Observer, Nov. 10, 1855.

" We can conceive of no better representation of the superii-
cles, 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."—Nonconformist, Nov. 21, 18e5.
" As we, in common with most 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 siue it
stands already some two hands high, and to spread out the map
implies the covering of an ordinary table."—Examiner. Nov. 21,
1855.
" Since last year, a fruitless attempt to establish a second
London Directory has been wisely abandoned. There is no
room for a rival work of this magnitude being published with
profit; and this publication has the prestige of having been es-
tablished above half a century."—Literary Gazette, Nov. 24,1865.