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London, England, 1845-01-23 00:00:00

MORNING HER►LDS Nov. 19, 1.44.

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
judged of from a brief enumeration of its contents. The first
portion of the work comprises a list of the hotels and convenient
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, ia
treble columns, is succeeded by the " Official Directory," which
commences with an alphabetical list of persons holding situa.
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 direction to the post.otfice 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
tory" of some 40 pages.
The typographica 'character of the ♦olume Is as commendable u
the fulness and faithfulness 's Ithe 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
►oid 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 been
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-
fers:state fidelity.

Sex, Nov. 14, 1544.
This work bas now reached its forty-sixth annual publication,
and latterly It has been brought out on such a comprehensive, cor.
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 respecting 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, letter-press. This Directory is, perhaps,
the most complete manual of the kind ever published.
WEEKLY DIM:VOL, Nov. 17, 1844.
The" Post Office London Directory," which is published by the
Messrs. Kelly, of Old Boswell-court, is now before us. This edi.

tion for 1845, contains a vast inorea;e of useful matter when corn.
pared with former ones. One important department now aided,
is that which gives an official return of the Amount of the circula-

tion of notes by all private and joint-stock banks. Another divi.
lion of the work atlbrds 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 to 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 of one man it is the hive
of s living million, a vast storeheuse 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 so 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. 16, 1644.
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
" Street Directory,' where you are ignorant
three grand phases of
of the name but know it when you see it—" Commercial," " Law,"
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 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 Office London Directory;" and,
so far as we have taken steps to test it, wonderfully correct.

JOliN Butt, Nev. 23, 1844.
This " monster ♦olume" is really a curiosity in its way. When
we turn over its two thousand closely.printed pages, and reflect
upon the enormous mass of information which those pages contain
—information prepared with a degree of accuracy which is quite

marvellous together with its complete and comprehensive character
(for nothing is omitted which any person can possibly wish to rind),
we do say that this "Post Office Directory" is a most extraor-
dinary undertaking. As a proof of the vigilance which has been
exercised in bringing down the matter to the latest possible period,
Lord Western's name will not be found in the " Parliamentary
Directory." Similar instances of attention might be adduced. As
tests we have turned to several names of persons among our own
acquaintance who have recently changed their residence, and i■ ne
one case have we found the change overlooked. This is conclusive
proof of the general care that is bestowed to render the work ac.
curate as well as voluminous; for it is fair to conclude that any one
applying the test within his own range, would find the sante vigi-
lance. In every point of view it is a work of vast utility, and in..
dispensable to all persons who have any business to transact in
this mighty centre of business. It supersedes all ether guidoe and
Directories.

GLOBS, Nov. 16, 1844.
- The claims to public patronage of this most elaborate and well.
arranged Directory have been so fully established, as to render any
• notice of it almost an act of supererogation. In addition to the
extensive and varied information by which this work was already
.distinguished, we find in the volume for 1845, a considerable quan.
tity of new and appropriate matter, arranged under various heads.
All this has been done—notwithstanding the greatly increased size
of the volume—without any additional charge. The yearly outlay
of capital required to produce the work must be immense ; the
reward of the enterprise and labour will, we trust, be in propor.
tion to it.
HEREPATR'S RAILWAY AND COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER,
Nov. 16, 1844.
How such a mass of information was ever brought together,
even in the 1,900 large pages of this volume, it is difficult to
imagine, even though we take into account that to effect it, has
tasked the ample resources of its owners for a series of years, The
result, however, is that a commercial book of reference has been
produced worthy of the commercial capital of the world. The
high character of the Post Office Directory has given it a place in
every house of real business ; indeed, not to possess it is to be
without information to which every man in the United Kingdom
commercially employed should have ready access.
In the " Conveyance Directory" the matter connected with
Railways is full and recent. Within our space enumeration of the
various subjects cannot be attempted, nor can such be requisite.
It can be only necessary of a work so universally known to say,
that the number of the Post Office London Directory for 1845 is
by far the best and most complete edition of the work which has
ever been produced. Higher praise it would be difficult to bestow.
The Slap with which the book is accompanied, entitled " Modern
London and its Environs," is an entirely new one, and one of the
best plans of the Metropolis we have yet seen.
RAILWAY Realm', Dec. 1, 1844.
There are few men of business who do not take in the " Post Office
Directory," and to such, an enumeration of its contents is almost
valueless; but for those who do not, it may be as well to
make some further remarks, and the more so, as it only needs an
acquaintance with that work to be convinced of its intrinsic value
and great utility. There are some offices where the expenditure
for a new Directory is grudged on the ground that it is laying out
money for what they do not want, and they grub on without a
" Post Office Directory." or with only one of Pigot's or Robson's
superannuated Directories. A sharp, acute man of business would,
however, just as soon be persuaded to part with his inkstand as
with his " Post Office Directory," for it not merely saves more
than its cost in time, but it is a valuable instrument for carrying
on business. As a means of ready reference it is valuable, as a
man's name, residence, and occupation are soon found, and a re.
ference to an old Directory will show how long he has been en.
gaged in such pursuits, and furnish prima.facial evidence as to
respectability. This is so well understood in proper quarters, that
on such matters the " Post Office Directory" will be found quoted
in the leading articles of the Times, in Government and Parlia.
montary reports, and before the police and criminal courts.
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the pseudo firm is not to be found enrolled in its columns.

It would appear inexplicable that a day register of this
kind should be found playing such an important part in the cam.
mercial community, if it were not well ascertained that its con-
ductors display the greatest energy and accuracy in car-
rying out their undertaking. The return of the circulation of
country banks prefixed to the "Banking Directory" is the best
which has yet appeared, and the only digest of the Population
Returns, applying to the metropolis, is the one in the "City Di-
rectory," which gives the population and income-tax of each parish
in the metropolis, and a laborious analysis of the occupations of the
population, deduced from the Census of 1841.

Were this work more carefully looked to in country places, the
swindling bill and other firms would find a little more difficulty IR
carrying out their nefarious pursuits.
In conclusion, we say, When you want anything, always look
in the Post Office Directory."
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, NOT, 23, 1844. _

Twenty years have made a strange alteration in the bulk •f this
almost indispensable Directory. Well do we remember the mean,
spare volume of other days, with its long lines of large type, and
its shabby sheepskin binding; in place of which we have here a
ponderous large octavo volume, of some 1,900 pages, •f two and
three columns each, of small type, comprising " inter alia," direc-
tories, " Official," " Sliest," " Commercial," " Law," " Court,"
" Parliamentary," "Postal," "City," " Conveyance," " Bank-
ing"—thus combining the advantages of the old " Directory " with
those of the " Court Guide"—the east witk the west—and com.
prising all the information which the merchant or trader, or any
other London resident or visitor, can reasonably expect to find ;
and by excellent classification and arrangement, any portion of this
information may be found without difficulty. Among other addi.

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tions, we perceive some important and interesting statistics of Lon-
don—as the area in acres, population, and assessment, and a state-
ment from the Occupations' Abstract of the Census of IE4I. The

" Directory" is, in fine, as complete as untiring industry and ♦i.
gilance can make it; for they have uniformly kept pace with the
increase of the number and extent of our metropolitan and national
establishments and interests.

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