The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-07 00:00:00

Scx, Nov. 14, 1844.

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This work has now reached its forty-sixth annual publication,
and latterly It has been brought out on such a comprehensive, cot'.
rect, and extensive system, that it has driven all competitors from
the field.
The " Postal Directory," which has been compiled with great
care, furnishes complete instruction as to the dispatch of letters
and newspapers to all parts of the world ; and the list of the princi.
pal places in England and Wales has been greatly enlarged.
There is also a useful notice reweeting the obliterating stamps
used at the post-office, with the list of the towns and the respective
figures prefixed, which shows at once the place where the letter is
posted, and thereby remedies a very common defect—the illegibility
of the country post-office mark of the town.
Besides these, there are several other improvements which
contribute materially to the convenience of consulting a work so
multifarious, and which contains not fewer than 1,980 pages of
close, but very distinct, letterpress. This Directory is, perhaps,
the most complete manual of the kind ever published.
WEEKLY DISPATCII, Nov. 17, 1844.

The" Post Office London Directory," which is published by the
Messrs. Kelly, of Old Boswoll.court, is now before us. This edi-
tion for 1845, contains a vast increase of useful matter when com-
pared with former ones. One important department now added,
is that which gives an official return of the amount of the circula.
tion of notes by all private and joint-stock banks. Another CO.
sion of the work afthrds the most minute description of the extent
and population of London. The size of the volume Is greatly In.
creased, and it is now decidedly the best, most comprehensive, and
most useful work of the kind ever issued from the press.
BRITANNIA, Nov. 16,1844.

This pyramid of the publishing world comes out this year with
increased claims te public favour. But it is a pyramid only in its
vastness, its substance, and the immense labour employed to put it
together. Instead of being the sepulchre ef one man it is the hive
of a living million, a vast storehouse of facts, a library of commer.
cial instruction, what for the year the Times newspaper is for the
day—a publication that no other city of the world could •r can
produce. There is no item of information which can by possibility
be supposed to be contained in a " London Directory" that is not
to be found in this. The work is perfect and complete of its kind,
and as such we recommend it to the notice of the commercial
world, though, indeed, by this time its merits are so well known
that it needs little recommendation of ours.
SPECTATOR, NOV. IS, 1844.
Although this immense volume is now, we believe, literally un.
rivalled, the absence of a competitor does not seem to have relaxed
exertion or to have stopped extension. On the contrary, the book
has grown with the growth of London, and we have the most corn.
plete exhibition of a great city that perhaps ever was made; in its
three grand phases of " Street Directory,'' where you are ignorant
of the name but know it when you see it—" Commercial," " Law,ss
or " Official Directory," where, street unknown and name not re.
membered, you may hunt out a man by his vocation—or in the re-
gular alphabetical list of persons it gives at a reference to an indi-
vidual whose name 6 present. " Court," " Parliamentary,"
veyance," " Assurance," " Postal," and other
" Banking," " Con
Directories for the distinct grades of society or important branches
in the business of life, render the exhibition still more complete.
A wonderful work is the " Post Office London Directory;" and,
so far as we have taken steps to test it, wonderfully correct.

RHIN 13tmL,ATiv. 23, 1844.
This " monster volume" iii really a curiosity in its way. Whed
we turn over its two thousand closely-printed pages, and reflect
upon the enormous mass of information which these pages contain
—information prepared with a degree of accuracy which is quite
marvellous together with its complete and comprehensive character