The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-26 00:00:00

POST- OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY,
for 1849, being th) Fiftieth Annual Publication, Is now pub-
lishing in 2,000 royal octavo pages, price 36s ; Sina..iar Edition, 15s.
It has already received the following highly gratifying notice in
the leading Metropolitan Journals:—
SUN, NOVEMBER 30, 1818. _ . .. .

The year 1849 is the jubilee of this most useful, most meritorious,
and most carefully compiled work of reference. It is now just half a
century since the " Post-office London Directory" first became a
candidate for public favour, and for many years it waged an unequal
war with other publications of a similar character. Fortunately,
however, for the public, it became, in 1836, the property of its pre-
sent proprietor, who, with that energy and enterprise which, in
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, commands swce,s, determined
to make it in reality what it was in name —a directory and guile to
the streets, the professions, and the trades of Lond. n—to make it a
mirror of the metropolis of the commercia. world. To accomplish
this, neither pains nor expense were spared ; the work was extended
to nearly double the usual size, accuracy was secured by establishing
a system of collecting information, and a system of checking and
comparing the results of the information thus collected. A map of
Loudon was added; and thus the " Post-office London Directory,"
by the greater extent and greater accnr icy of its information, and by
the more lucid arrangement of its contents, was enabled to drive
*Very rival from the field.
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THE TIMES, NOVEMBEIL 30, 184$.
!'he volume for the approaching year, 1849, being the 50th volume
/ifs publication, has just been published by Messrs. Kelly and Co.,
of .d Boswell court. This volume contains all the matter which
enriched those of the present and preceding years, with all such im-
provements as increased activity of research and careful iuvestfga-
Hon can supply. It appears to be as accurate a compilation for the
Offices, trades, occupations, end residences of thousands of persons
as the most minute inquiry and the most methodical arrangement
can furnish. Perhaps no book more effectually atuwers the purposes
for which it is intended than this does. It is necessarily a bulky
volume ; but its bulk, co trary to the general rule, is an advantage,
and it may be said to contain no superfluous pages whatever. It is'
Well printed, and well get up, and has a map of London prefixed to
it, which will be found useful. The proprietor has had for many
years an arduous task in carrying out his object, but his labours have
terminated in complete success. He has conferred a benefit on the
public, and it is their duty, as well as their interest, to patronise his
Work.

MORNING HERALD, NOVEMBER 30, 1848.
This stupendous and indispensable hook Inv., with honourable
punctuality, again made its appearance, having completed 50 years
cults existence—a lapse of time that has imperceptibly added to the
experience of those who have been engaged in its production, and
given it, by the accumulation of resources, every conceivable feature
Of utility. Although comprising such a myriad of isolated facts, il-
lustrative of the commercial and professional pursuits of the inhabi-
tants of this vast metropolis, we do not remember any case of error,
And the care which has thus been bestowed upon its preparation has
established it as an authoritative Directory of the capital of Great
Britain, laughing ivalry to scorn. How such an enormous body of
specific intelligence could be got together at all is a matter of wonder,
but how the masses of detal brou.tht in from the army of labourers
employed to collect it could have been so adroitly digested, and placed
In a shape so immediately adapted for reference. is more surprising
Still. There, however, is a book of upwards of two thousand royal
octavo pages, taking the whole of London within its grasp, and exhi-
biting its streets and the avocations of its residents, in treble alpha-
bet, whereby the convenience of the searcher after an unknown
Whereabouts" is met at all points. The " Post-office Directory" is,
in short,'a monument of most valuable enterprise, and achieved, as
it now is, by private machinery, without the aid that was f:rmerly
accorded it by the 'etter carriers, presents a matchless example of
Well-directed diligence and perseverance.
The arrangements of the present volume are similar to those which
have distinguished the work for the last two or three years, the com-
pleteness which the Proprietor has accomplished hardly admitting of
any further extension. We find, however, that the entire surface of
the metropolis has been revised, and such alterations made that
changes of address and the opening of new establishments rendered
necessary, while the suburban neighbourhoods, which are generally
swelling into importance and becoming fresh hives of :human exist-
ence and human industry, are vigi'antly detected and submitted to
Vie governing modes of analysis.