The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-27 00:00:00

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THE GIRL'S OWN BOOK, ELEVENTH EDITION.
In One Volume, square 16mo. embellished with 124 Cuts,
price 4s. 6d. bound in cloth,
THE GIRL'S OWN BOOK. By Mrs.
CHILD. The Eleventh Edition, with great Additions.
London : Printed for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside : where
may be had, just published, the Child's Own Book, Sixth Edi-
tion, with 300 Engravings, price 7s. 6d. bound in cloth.

THE LOWEST PRICED LONDON DIRECTORY.
Small Edition, Eight Shillings, Complete Edition, Twenty-
four Shillings.
POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY
For 1842.
" The plaintiff's publication was one of considerable bulk,
and most probably of great utility : anti so the Vice-Chan-
cellor of England must have thought by granting the injunc-
tion ex parte, and continuing that proceeding upon motion made
to dissolve it."
Vide " Times" of 20th December, 1841. —Judgment of his
Honour Vice Chancedor Knight Bruce, confirming the Injunc-
tion obtained against the " Post-Office Almanac," for pirating
Post-Office Directory."
The following Reviews of the Complete Directory have al-
ready appeared
Times, December 3, 1841.
This useful matter-of-fact volume has just been published by
"Mesirs. Kelly and Co., of Old Boswell- cour t,Temple-bar,
and will no doubt be, as it ought to be, in the hands of
every merchant, banker, and tradesman in the country. It
is, independently of its utility, by which it is rendered indis-
pensable to every counting-house and shop, a curious sta-
tistical monument of the extent, importance, trade, and
wealth of the metropolis, and as such a document de.erving
ti•e attention even of persons who arc not immediately is-
terested in commercial and business pursuits. The pres,nt
volume for 1842 contains some important new matter, with
which the preceding volumes were not furnished—it has an im-
portant addition, " The official Directory," an alphabetical
list of all persons holding situations under the Crown, of all
persons holding situations in the East India House, in the
Bank of England, and in the various law, city offices, and all
other public offices. This addition is of itself enough to show
the great pains taken by the Proprietors to render the book
perfect. There is also some useful information given relative
to the " Money Order-office," to which, if the public would
pay more attention than they have hitherto done, less would
be heard of the loss of money by the transmission of remittances
by post in the manner usually adopted. The number of stamps
is•ued to the various newspapers published throughout England
and Wales is given, together with the amount of stamp duties
on advertisements paid by each paper respectively, and, indeed
a mass of information is brought together from which the best
informed may derive some increase of knowledge, and to
which the attention of the most ignorant and careless can
hardly be called in vain. As far as the cursory examination
can justify an opinion, and it is next to impossible to pay to
such a work as this the minute attention it deserves, it appears
to be compiled with indefatigable industry, extreme vigilance
and an excellent judgment for arrangement.
Morning Chronicle, December 21, 1841.

We have had occasion to commend the extraordinary diligence
and accuracy shown in getting up the " Post -office Directory"
for 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 roost astonishing monuments of the greatness of
London that can well be conceived. This information appears
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 will
c nvey 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—City—Parliamentary—
Courts—Postage—Banking—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 London.
Morning Herald, Nev. 30, 1841.
This is a most. complete and extremely useful work. It em-
braces every point of interest in and near the metropolis that
can affect the wants of the community at large, and 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 dimens'ons (ex-
tending over 1,500 pages) is accurate in the minutest particu.
lars. No public office or mercantile house should, in fact, be
without it.

Morning Post, December 29, 1841.
pretty they
The charge, whether true or false, brought against the
may be, they are of
tt i
publication. Within the single
Boswell-court,
neatly brought out
by Messrs Kelly and Co.. of Old well-court, Temple.bar,
ile or ualnso," use,t that, however
cannot howev
ine r
any
degree
apply
to this singular
Ann
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 fire-
and-twenty thousand name., ; a " Law Directory" of the
most ample description, giving`, among_er other details, no fewer
than sixteen large pages of a
index
'oral List of Stamps ;" an
' Official Directory, with
eanc of six thousand persons
holding situations under th . rown, in the Bank, the East
India House, and other public departments ; the C-
I cial Directory," andathe fullest. and most complete that
has ever yet appeared, 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 nothing could have been
produced more perfect for
.the purposes fur which the huge
compilation was 'designed ;
_it
_appears, however, we were mis-
taken. The thick volume b f
,e ?re us is vastly superior to the
last, and is unquestionably ' the most complete work of the
kind ever published ;' the information is so judiciously classi-
fied, that although it extends over some fifteen hundred large
closely printed pales,
es, every department of the compilation
migHt be consulte in a few seconds. It is surprising how
such a mass of intelligence can have beed 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 Ge.neral Post-office. No count-
ing-house, coffee-rooin, or public office, should be without this
excellent record.
Sun, November 2.5, 1841.
We have great pleasure in noticing this useful work, of which
we hove 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 contains 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-
eludes gentry as well as traders; and subjoined to this, are two
' I others, giving the names, at full length, of sixty thousand per-