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THE TIMES, NovENBER 30, 1848.
The volume for the 'approaching year, 1849, being the 50th volume
of this publication, has just been published by Messrs. Kelly and Co.,
of Old Boswell-court. This volume contains all the matter which
enriched those of the present and preceding years, with all such lat.
'movements as increased activity of research and careful investiga-
tion can supply. It appears to be as accurate a compilation for the
offices, trades, occupations, and residences of thousands of persons
as the most minute inquiry and the most methodical arrangement
Can furnish. Perhaps no book more effectually answers the purposes
for which it is intended than this does. It is necessarily a balky
volume; but its bulk, contrary to the general rale, is an advantage,
and it may be said to contain no superfluous pages whatever. It is
Well printed, and well got up, and has a map of London prefixed to
it, 'which will be found useful. The proprietor has had for many
Cars 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 book has, with honourable
Punctuality, again made its appearance, having completed 50 years
of its 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 rivalry 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 detail brought 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, aid 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 poiats. The " Post-office Directory" is,
fit short, a monument of most valuable enterprise, and achieved, as
now is, by private machinery, without the aid that was formerly
accorded it by the letter•carriers, presents a matchless example of
well-dtrected diligence and perseverance.
The arrangements of the present volume arc 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
changes
metropolis has been revised, and such alterations made that
anges of address and the opening of new establishments rendered
necessary,„„_„, whlle the suburban neighbourhoods, which are generally
-"cumg into importance and becoming fresh hives of human exist-
ence and human industry, are vigilantly detected and submitted to
the governing modes of analysis.

MORNING CHRONICLE, DECEMBER 1, 1848.
This Valuable work is so well known and appreciated, that it would
be a work of supererogation to enter into any explanation as to its
Stature and merits. It is sufficient to state that this is the fiftieth
annual publication under the above title, and it contains a mass of
Information which can nowhere else be obtained, relative to the
Commercial, professional, and other interests in this great metropolis,
110 as to render its possession almost absolutely necessary to any one
residing in London, and who takes an active part in the business of
life. The present volume extends to upwards of 2,000 pages ; but not-
Withstanding its bulky appearance, it contains such an enormous
quantity of details, as really to render it surprising hew it could be
condensed into such a compass, and at the same time be so admirably
digested and arranged, that any reference may be found out with the
greatest facility. When this publication was first started, it was little
snore than an alphabetical list of names and addresses ; but within
the last few years the whole plan has been so expanded as to com-
prise not less than twelve separate parts, under the titles of the Offi-
cial, the Street, the Commercial, the Trades. the Law, the Court, the
Parliamentary, the Postal, the City, the Conveyance, the Banking,
and the Assurance Directories. Under each of these heads every re-
quisite information Is given, so that any fact which can properly
come under any one of these categories can at once be ascertained.
The arrangement of the present volume is similar to those which
have been published for the last three or four years, but the whole of
the contents have been carefully revised, and such alterations have
been made since last year as the changes which have taken place in
the residences, appointments, and arrangements under the classes
Which we have mentioned have rendered necessary to secure ac-
curacy. There has also been a considerable extension in many of its
departments. An extremely well-engraved new map of London,
prepared expressly for this work, faces the title-page.

MORNING POST, NOVEMBEZ 30, 1848.
It is jest half a century since the " Post-office London Directory"
nest made its appearance. BuQlow small, how limited in its objects,
how inefficient in its attainments it then was, compared with what
at now is ! London itself, with its commerce, its extensions, its
Population, its improvements of all sorts, does not so far outstrip
the London of 1800 as the " Post-office Directory" of 1849 does
that Of the first year of its publication. To the energy, the enter-
prise, and the unwearying exertions of the Messrs. Kelly this great
Metropolis is indebted for having a directory worthy of the gigantic
interests contained within its circumference. Such a directory no
other city in the world can boast of possessing. It is really amazing
to open this huge volume and contemplate the mass of information
contained therein ; and when its accuracy is tested by referring to
details within oar own personal cognizance, it is impossible to
Withhold the expression of our admiration for the stupendous corn -
Dilation, and of our belief in its general truthfulness. The classifica-
tion is most complete, and under the heads of " Official." " Street,"
" Commercial:, Trades," " Law," " Court," "Parliamentary,"
Postal,"cenvey",,,. . Banking," &c. all the per-
sonal and other information which the most copious directory can
impart is found with the greatest facility. This work is really a
fine monument of our country's commercial greatness and persever-
ing industry.

MORNING ADVERTISER, DESEMBER 2, 1848.
This remarkable, bulky, and well-known work, with the publica-
tien for 1849 (now on the eve of being issued), reaches its fiftieth,
Jubilee year; arid, as if duly to celebrate that signal event,
Messrs. Kelly (for the proprietor) appear to have made, if possible,
aZ!,.ng My extra but extraordinary exertions to distinguish it, by pre-
kindiaputably the amplest, the most clearly arranged, and the
oLeo.ospicuous and utilitarian compilation of the kind that is
ags,,,Ar the world. Its multifarious merits are such that it is an
au ti.„' 1, not only to the commercial community of London, and
graole:allions who are in communication or connexion with this
requel• utiercantile centre of that world, but must be in continuous
IWher Wherever parties have communications with England—and.
eour ethe civilized, or half civilized land that has not such inter-
? To describe its contents and peculiarities at this advanced
AerMailer's
of its history, would be a very uncalled for claim upon the
-`4,ler's attention. Still we cannot forbear to mention that, since
e Work has fallen into the hands of the present management,
rapidly improved, beat all competitors out of the field,
Lind is become as valuable, correct, ado e
speak-
). as compact, and yet as full and complete a work, as
_.".0 merchants, bankers, commercial and trading community, could
uesire. In fact, it leaves no directorial want unsupplied. It is a
,Marvellous publication, as any one must admit who is competent to
Judge of the vastness and peculiarities of this metropolis. In its
Minuteness, it is an astonishing reality. What is it? It is a Direc•
tory and guide to the streets, the professions, the trades, &c., of
London; it is a just reflection of the capital and community of the
commercial world. To achieve this great object, no labours seem to
have daunted or tired, and no watchfillness or expenditure appears
to have impeded those who were engaged in preparing this volumi-
nous and perfect " London Directory."

GLOBE, DECEMBEII 5, 1848.
The " London Post-office Directory" has commenced its fiftieth
Year of a most useful existence. The present volume resembles its
latter predecessors in general form, look, and arrangement, being di-
vided into the heads of Official, Street,! Commercial, Trades, Law
Court, Parliamentary, Postal, City, Couvoyance, Banking, &c., &c.
Under those heads we have a vast mass of well-digested and coni-
actlY arranged information, so classified and methedised, that one
aft hunt up a man if we know the smallest fragment of primary
tact about him, and then searching for him under the several
'Wads that may apply, we may find out what he is, whore he is, and
rich else about him. If he be in the Official Directory, we find,oW he got his place ; if he be a man of business, what that business
44, 'in
(1 where he carries it on ; if he be a lawyer, what rank he
ulds—whether he has any other 'appointment, &c. ; if he be in Per-
i:Mein, what place he represents, where he is ,to be found when In
bite and where he lives in '..he conntry. Then to Ind how to send
a letter, we turn to the Postal Directory, and though he had
"4,;--1 to the ut•ermost parts of the earth, we have the requisite infor-
-4ii"ll about postages, post days, and all routes by ship, mail,
lsteamboat, and railroad; or if we wish rather to pursue him in per-
-4: what remote corner of the world is there, the means of reaching
mitch is not opened up to as in the Conveyance Directory ? We are
',me indentify our individual and particular John Smith from the
columns of his namesakes if we knew any single distinguishing
e‘ about him, and to poance upon bins infallibly in his private
it'l's% in his office, in his shop, or wherever he may be.
c„,,.n there is a capital map of London to help as in
51i", researches, together with an almanack, lists of inns,
Ottot, in its more than two thousand closely printed pages.
be expected that such a book as this should be altog,e-
ir free from errors. Some few omissions and inaccuracies may be
Q'tii but taken altogether it is a volume of wide and remarkable
0,8 Nay, even as a work of amusement, we think, it is not to be
; and half an hour may be very agreeably spent in researches
frie,.,,10 occupations and abiding places of one's acquaint
a„,," s Such a search is, indeed, the best test of its general accuracy;
i;,`," though there may be a few exceptions, as a general rule it bears
'',l3 test thoroughly well.

WEEKLY DISPATCH, DECEMBER 3, 1848.
ti 13113 stupendous annual has just made its appearance for the fit%
bsirul tinic It comprise% amongst oath"er information,Official
Te„dtBct;arY," a " Street Directory," Commercial Directory," a
Directory," a " Law Directory," a " Court Directory," a
to; a,liarrientary Directory," a " Postal Directory," a " City Direc-
a " Conveyance Directory," and a " Banking Directory."
sett although we have thus copied the principal headings from
;I tle-page, they convey a very faint idea of the mass of varied
iorniation condensed into a space, which, though bulky enough
ilia appearances, is still small when compared with the Ito amoat of gence conained therein. The
in-
.'elf contains severalintelli hundred minort headings, nu connected with
Lhe wants or interests, the business or the proceedings, of the com-
,ercial and trading community. The book positively reflects high
honour upon the great city which alike produces and requires it ;
`lcl infinite credit is due to the Messrs. Kelly for the manner in
b Fitch they have presented it to the pubic. No money can have
:ten sPared in rendering it accurate, complete, and perfect in all its
anlilutest details. It is in itself a reflex of the grand.ur, wealth,
oeu Y4st mercantile interests of the great capital of the British
toirtlioas ; it catches, as with a daguerreotype, all the features
toighasea of a community numbering two millions of souls. We
Iherit hm,'" "on sa withut hyperbolic urish, o poetic fictio, th:
certain yn% oralso of its own ; for, thought in the abstrnact, at a
140_8 catalogue of streets, names, associations, trades, and institu.
Pride :12 Yet does it irresistibly raise up in the breast a feeling of
slon the part of him who can in any way, however humble,
ate himself with that mighty metropolis whose interests arc
the :ere repre,,,ented and registered in this volume. We can fancy
merit, Which would be produced upon a s wage were he, for argii-
WferB sake, able to understand English, and if. this book were
tov, to his contemplation. You
might assure him that it related,
ohe city in the British Islands, and he would exclaim, "No ;
'lst be a register of entire kingdoms !"

myAhot, OIIN BULL, DECEMBER 9, 1848.
nether editionJ of this extremely useful, and for the amount of
41, te.r.'t7TPressed in it, extremely cheap publication, now lies before
With
'lull Yula', by the multiplicity of its information, to the industry
Dare,l it is compiled. A map of London is added, in which we
44're bv:e_tht. all the new streets laid down in the course of last year
litiserted, and the various departments of the Directory
he pre74-)rought up to the latest (late. We are happy to find from
taa tatioai that its succ a
ti
is such as to guarantee to the public the
be..f Deublic atien of manual which to those engaged in business
"3 absolutely indispensable.

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It Nv,,,,,r XAMNEEECEMBER 16, 1
first, ao be curious toI compare this fiftieth 845.
publication withbtullike,
r more t°,,bserve by what steps it has grown to its enormous
uook does 'aa two thousand pages. But the great evil o
812 e. It i,,"t apply to Mr. Kelly's. Its utility is in the ratio of. 1
. great.ts
one. ri not one Directory, but a dozen. It is twelve rolled into
,the CourT ()tneial, the Street, the Commercial, the Trade,s', the
,Law,
:e Ilitilki' gie parliamentary, the Postal, the City, the
within Conveyance,
-4aie ng, the Assurance Directories are all accessible the
learen,, "cr. The reference, by admirable classification, and by
cei'ar sabdivisions of callings and streets, is rendered so easy, that ka. cllY Possible to conceive a person missing the information ke
,Nrs'e lia.,:kft2ach times as we have hitherto had occasion to use it,
th.,othl,l found its accuracy and fulness to be really beyond praise.
ouid cl Is tted which it is conceivable that a resident in London
Miro,
or esire to kno__,
w of the countless multitudes that dwell around
_ntliloy::fthe endless variety of occupations that keep them busily "ad fuloo' The book is a perfect marvel of arrangement, accuracy,
3' of information.

1848.
/IN
~., , isnITANNIA, DECEMB
ace,orrii:.,nuort,le Directory has reached itst fiftieth annual issue, and,
niany' ',7 t all appearance, it is likely o. appear regularly for as
inceatpriatVollosf.
k•naland °r Years as London shall continue to.
tb,„ • Whatever increase may take Place . ace with
ito,„l.ll6ed be ne doubt that this periodical will kee
int'eththee
it with every
zreat ir', '''e contrast what it was with what it is, and repmpember the
attecessi-jr.vernents which have been made in
Prhit,,,, e Publication. It now comprises two thousand elosely
ks4,7.,D!'%ea, with such an admirable analysis of trades
saeusd pr.o.s-
eppaM such a perfect classification of names itnd hou
or
....-
ftiiia,..l,lnost comprehensive guide that can be desired .1
ft, —,.....-o ery purpose of reference. The arrangement,indeed,,is
atiat r''.i_iff te that the proprietors have only to maintain it in its pre-
rmy,:u3l. to be certain of enjoying a centinuance of that ~ Toao-
it,„ watch their unrivalled skill, industry, and enterprise in the
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