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P OST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY for
for 1845 IS NOW PUBLISHING.
The following Reviews of the Work have already appeared :
Tisms, Dec. 4, 1844.
As far as utility is concerned no volume can exceed the claims
of the Directory to universal patronage. Though it is of great
bulk, it contains nothing that is superfluous, and is an exception to
the general rule, that a great tu.ak is a great evil. This is the
49th volume of the series. contains several useful additions to
its immediate predecessor, more particularly in that portion called
the " Postal Directory," and, as compared with the first volume,
published nearly half a century agp, it shows an immense increase
of information, and may be considered as an index of the history of
the vast increase of London, VQestminster, and the suburbs. A
work of this kind, combining Use most extensive and at the same
time the most accurate information of the residences, trades, pro.
fessions, arc., of 500,000 people, the names of hundreds of streets
arid squares, arranged with such clearness of order, and so corn.
prehensive as to direct the whole population where to find each
other, and in what manner to carry on the intercourse by letters,
messengers, &c., is amongst the benefits which the progress of
printing has conferred of la'.e years, and ought to be appreciated
in a way commensurate te, its merits by the public. It affords a
check to imposture, a fi-mility to intercourse, and a guide to useful
intclligence. In a word, the cost of this b•ok can scarcely be better
laid out than its pure hese.

MORNING CHRONICLE, Nov. 15, 1844.
We have just received a copy of the above work, the nature
and value of which must be well known to all our readers. A
very cursory examination of it clearly shows that there has been a
considerable increase in all its various contents or departments,
and, as far as we have been able to test it, it does not appear that
this increase has been made by any sacrifice of accuracy. Besides
all the departments which appeared in the former publications of
this work, we find that in the present volume there are several new
chapters.

All these appear to have been prepared with great care, and
furnish a ♦aluable addition to the Directory, and this has been
done—notwithstanding the greatly increased size of the volume—
without any additional charge; as the proprietors state that they
rely upon an increased sale to compensate them for the additional
outlay.

We believe that this work, at the present time, has no corn.
petitor, and certainly, considering the evident care with which it
has been prepared, and the high reputation which it so deservedly
bears for accuracy, together with its cheapness, we do not think
that a competitor would have any chance of success, or—contrary
to the general rule—that the public would derive the slightest ad.
vantage from any such competition.
MoaNiNo POST, Nov. 16, 1844.
This work, by far the most valuable of the annual class, has
made its appearance at an earlier period of the year than usual.
Though in advance of time, the compilers and printers have bee■
so active that all the alterations usually Introduced or expected have
been effected. The " Parliamentary" and the " Official Directory"
beer evidence that the latest changes have been noted. The large
Map of London also, prefixed to the •olume, has all the new
streets and recent improvements carefully marked; and in the
Railway Tables and "Conveyance Directory," the same attention
to correct the work to the latest possible date is apparent. Every
village, as well as every town in England and Wales, having a
post-office is duly stated, with the time of arrival and departure of
the London letters. No book of reference of the kind could be
more complete.

MORNINCI Ilxatt.n, Nov. 19, 1544.
The edition for 1845 of this very useful work has just been
issued. The usefulness of the volume, as well as the immense
labour that must have been expended in completing it, will be best
. . _

Fudged of from a brief enuro.eration of its contents.

The firt!

portion of the work comprises a list of the hotels and contenien
inns throughout England and Wales, with the names of the occu

pants and the population according to the census of 1841. This,
which extends over seventeen pages of small but clear type, in
treble columns, is succeeded by the " Official Directory," which
commences with an alphabetical list of persons holding situ*.
tions under the Crown, in the East India House, Bank of England,
and the various law, city, and all other public offices, and is followed
by the division of the above into their proper departments, where
the names of the offices are again given. This portion of the work
is very faithfully compiled, and extends over about fifty pages.
Next comes a list of the principal thoroughfares of the metropolis,
with a direetion to the post.ofiice nearest to each thoroughfare.
The more bulky portion of the work follows—the " Street Direc-
tory,' and extends over nearly 500 pages. The " Commercial and
Professional Directory" succeeds, occupying also nearly 500 pages ;
then the " Trades Directory," of upwards of 450 pays ; the " Law
Directory'' of some 70 pages; the "Court Directory" of nearly
100 pages; a statistical account of the metropolis; the " City Di.

_ .
rectory ;" the " Conveyance Directory" of some 120 pages ; the
" Banking Directory' of 140 pages; and the " Assurance Direc.
tory" of some 40 pages.
The typographic' kharacter of the volume is as commendable as
the fuluoss and faithfulness o fthe work itself.
MORNING/ ADVERTISER, Nov. 15, 1844.
This work, which has now stood the test of public opinion for
nearly half a century, has just appeared. The edition for the pre.

sent year having been all sold, it became necessary to supply the
void thus occasioned, and the result has been the production of the
work at this early period. Notwithstanding the rapidity with
which it has passed through the press, its general accuracy has keen
carefully preserved. It is really wonderful how so vast a mass
of matter can be compiled so accurately and so well. We have
looked through the pages of the " Directory" with the view of
testing its correctness, and we are bound to say, that in no one in.
stance could we find even the slightest ground to impugn its con-
summate fidelity.

Sax, Nov. 14, 1844.
This work has now reached its forty-sixth annual publication,
and latterly it has been brought out on such a comprehensive, cor.
rest, and extensive system, that it has driven all competitors irons
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 respecting the obliterating stamps
used at the postoffice, 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, letter-press. This Directory is, perhaps,
the most complete manual of the kind ever published.

Wrzestor DIsP►TCH, Nov. 17, 1844.
The " Pest Office London Directory," which is published by the
Messrs. Kelly, of Old Boswell.court, is now before us. This edi.
lion for 1845, contains a vast increase of useful matter when corn.
pared with farmer ones. One important department now added,
is that which gives an official return of the amount of the circula.
lion of notes by all private and joint-stock banks. Another divi-
sion of the work affords the inset minute description of the extent
and population of London. The size of the volume is greatly in.
creased, and it is new decidedly the best, most comprehensive, and
most useful work of the kind ever issued from the press.
BRITANNIA, Nov. 10, 1844.
• •

This pyramid of the publishing world comes out this year with
increased claims to public favour. But It is a pyramid only in its
vastness, its substance, and the immense labour employed to pet It
together. Instead of being the sepulchre of 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 or can
produce. There is no item of information which ca. 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 suck 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. 16, 1844.

Although this immense volume is 101, 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 e'er 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,o
or " Official Directory," where, street unknown and name not re-
membered, you may, bunt 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 is present. " Court," " Parliamentary,"
" Banking," " Conveyance," " Assurance," " Postal," and other
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 WHIN London Directory ;" and,
so far as we have taken steps to test it, wonderfully correct.

JOHN BULL, Nov. 23, 1844.
This " monster volume" is really a curiosity in its way. When
we turn over its two thousand closely-printed pages, and reflect
I.pon the enormous mass of information which these pages contain
—information prepared -with a degree of accuraq which ie quite

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