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SPECTATOR, Nov. 16, 1844.

,
Although this immense volume is now, we believe, literally no.
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 com-
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,"
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.
Jon s Butt, 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
upon the enormous mass of infornaation which these 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 end),

GLOBE, 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 proper.
Lion to it.

HEREPATR'S RAILWAY AND COMMERCIAL ADVERTIIER,
Nov. 16, 1844.

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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 charactek 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 hou:d have ready access.
In the " Conveyance Directory" the matter connected with
Railways is full and recent. Within our space (numeration 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 Map with which the book is accompanied, entitled " Modern
London and its Environs," is an entirely new one, and one of the
beet plans of the Metropolis we have yet seen.
RAILWAY REGISTER, 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 ate 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 •oon 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.
mentary reports, and before the police and criminal courts.
Does the Times, with ready sagacity, detect a swindling
firm trying to prey •on the community—the " Post
Office Directory" is • immediately appealed to, to show that
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 is the com-
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 ciigest 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 in
carrying out their nefarious pursuits.
In conclusion, we say, When you want anything, always look
in the Post Office Directory."
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 23, 1844.

Twenty years have made a strange alteration in the bulk of 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, of two and
three columns each, of small type, comprising "inter alia," direc-
tories, " Official," " Stieet," " 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 with the west—and corn.
prising all the information which the merchant or trader, or any
other London resident or visitor, can reasonably expect to find i
and by excellent classification and arrangement, any portion of this
information may be found without difficulty. Among other addi-
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 1841. The
" Directory" is, in fine, as complete as untiring industry and vi.
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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Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Licentiate of
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