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versal approbation which it meets with at the hands of the commer-
cial community is the strongest testimony that can be given to the
usefulness of the volume, and the most satisfactory assurance its
conductors can receive of the state of perfection to which, after so
many years of spirite I perseverance and continual progress, they
have at last succeeded in bringing it. •

SPECTATOR, DECEMBER 2, 1848.
This gigantic volume of business and residential information has
now completed its half century, or year of jubilee; and is, we sup-
pose, unrivalled in tl.e .variety, utility, and precision of its facts.
Upwards of two thousand pages in double and treble columns are
here presented, touching the names, callings, and abodes of people in
business, or out of it, classified in every way to facilitate reference,
besides particular information concerning public offices, official men,
conveyances, bankers, and the Post-office.

ATLAS, DECEMBER 2, 1848.
We look upon this book as a national blessing. Who has not
found the use of it? who has not turned the information it contains
to profitable account? It is now in the jubilee year of its existence,
and, if possible, is more compete in its details than any of its pre-
decessors. Its amplitude and correctness are marvellous ; and that
they are duly appreciated we need no better proof than the fact of
the übiquity of its presence. Go where you will you are sure to
meet it. It is impossible to live a week in London without feeling
the want of such a work.

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