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THE POST OFFICE LONDON
DIRECTORY FOR 186 G.
Most gratifying Reviews of the huge volume have appeared in
all the leading Metropolitan Journals, of which only very slots
extracts can be here quoted.
" In short, this work contains all that can reasonably be required
in a ' Directory,' end much more, probably, than was ever found
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" The ' Poet Office London Directory' is indeed a triumph of
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"' 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
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—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-
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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.
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DECEMBER 22,.1855.

" Since last year, a fruitless attempt to establish a second
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We have tested the lateness of the period up to which it has
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