The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-02 00:00:00

Morning Cbronicle, December 21, 1841•

Wehave had occasion to commend the extraordinary diligence
and accuracy shown in getting up the ". Post-offieg Directory"
fir former years, and no less praise is due to the publication of
the present volume. It contains the same immense mass of
information relative to the metropolis, which renders the work
one of the most astonishing monuments of the greatness of
London that can well be conceived. This information app ars
classified, distributed and arranged in a variety of ways so as
to make the facility of reference nearly perfect. The
corrections necessary from the changes of a year appear,
as far as it is possible to judge, to have been carefully made,
and it. would be difficult to over-estimate the labour involved
in such corrections. We recommend it to the favourable consi-
deration of the public ; and, in fact, it must be regarded as indis-
pensable in . every house or office where business is trans-
acted. To those, if there be any, who have not seen it, it es i 1
convey the best notion of the variety of its contents to say, that
the single volume of 1,500 pages contains a Streets' Directory
—Trades' Directory—Law Directory—C,ty—Parliamentary—
Courts—Postage—fianking—and Official and Conveyance
Directories—each a large work, and complete in itself ; though
the whole are requisite to a publication which professes to be a
Directory for Louden.

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can affect the wants of the community at large, anal is service-
able to all classes of society. Under one general head, it con-
tains a series of Directories, in which are enumerated all the
trades, streets, names, official designations, Parliamentary,
legal, banking, and Post-office references, that. are in daily re-
quisition ; and, while it is of the most ample dimensons (ex-
tending over 1,500 pages) is accurate in the minutest particu-
lars. No public office or mercantile house should, in tact, be
without it.

Morning Post, December 29, 1841.
The charge, whether true or false, brought against the
" Annuals," that, however pretty they may be, they are of
little or no use, cannot in any degree apply to this singular
publication. Within the single volume, neatly brought out
by Messrs Kelly and Co., of Old Boswell-court, Temple•bar,
is comprised all the information that can be useful to the
fashionable, legal, or commercial communities. "It in-
cludes a "Court' Directory," which alone contains about five-
and-twenty thousand names; a " Law Directory" of the
most ample description, giving, among other details, no fewer
than sixteen large pages of a " General List of Stamps ;"
an
Official Directory," with an index of six thousand persons
holding situations under the Crown, in the Bank, the East
India House, and other public departments ; the " Commer-
cial Directory," perhaps the fullest and most complete that
has evor yet amarei, and a variety of miscellaneous matter
which it is impossible to particularise here. In short, from
our own observation, we can safely pronounce this work a sine
qua non to everybody who desires to become acquainted with
the great metropolitan world of London.
Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, Dec. 22, 1841.
On our reference from time to time to the Post-office Direc-
tory of 1841, we felt convinced that nothicg could have been
produced more perfect for the purposes for which the huge
compilation was designed ; it appears, however, we were mis-
taken. The thick volume before us is vastly superior to the
last, and is unquestionably " the most complete work of the
kind ever published ;" the information is so judiciously olassi-
fied, that although it extends over some fifteen hundred large
closely printed pages, every department of the compilation
might be consulted in a few seconds. It is snrprisirg how
such a mass of intelligence can have heed collected and ar-
ranged so accurately, expeditiously. and cheaply, neither of
which could of course be accomplished without the extensive
and peculiar resources of the General Post-office. No count-
ing-house, coffee-room, or public office, should be without this
excellent record.

Sun, November 25, 1841.

We have great pleasure in noticing this useful work, of which
we have received an early copy. It exceeds the size of the
Directory of last year, and probably is the most complete and
correct town-guide yet published. The following outline of
the contents will enable the reader to form some idea of the
vast undertaking. It contain., an Official Directory, with the
names alphabetically arranged,. of all civil officers under Go-
vernment, in the Bank of England, East India House, and all
other public establishments. A Street Directory, which in-
cludes gentry as well as traders; and subjoined to this, are two
ahem giving the names at full length, of sixty thousand per•