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

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 asinine. It contains the same immense snass of
information relative to the metropolis, which renders the work
one of thA 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 rhenges 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 publie ; 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 sren it, it will
c.ovey the bast notion of the variety of its contents to say, that
the single volume of 1,500 pages contains a Streets' Directory
—Trades' Directory—Law IDirectory—C.ty—Parliamentary
CourtA—P•3tage— Banking —and Official and Conveyance
Directories—each a large work, and complete in itself ; though
the whale are requisite to a publication which professes to be a
Directory for London.

Morning Herald, Nov. 30, 1841.
This is a most complete and extremely useful work. It em-
brace+ every point of interest in and near the metropolis that
ten effect the wants tether- constrwrity-ar-las

able to all olassoo wf ,ociety. Under...cope geol.ral heaci.lt;;;;
tains a series •f Directories, in which are enumerated all the
trades, streets, names, official designations, Parliamentary,
accurate legal, banking, and Post-office references, that are in daily re-
quisition ; and, while it is of the most ample dimensions (ex-
tending over 1,500 pages) is in the minutest particu•
lars. No public office or mercantile house should, in fact, be
without it.

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that well-court, Temple•bar,
Morning Post, December 29, 1841.
mercial communities. " I '
The charge, whether true or false, brought against the
4, Annuals," that, however pretty they may be, they are of
information can be useful tu the
little or no use, cannot in any degree 'TOY to this singular
publication. Within the single volume,
cje neatly brought out
fashionable, legal, or t in-
bit! AcolernspsrrsieKedellayuant
which al
eludes a " Court Directory," " ()ns contains about five-
and-twenty thousand names; a Law Directory" of the
most ample description, giving:, among
General
details, no fewer
than sixteen large pages of a . List of Stamps ;" an
an index of six
' Official Directory,'' with ,„, . thousand persons
dheCoi;com
bolding situations under the Gown, In the Bank, the East
India Nouse, an perhapse departments ; the .. cifinmer_
cial Directory,"the fullest and most complete that
a varietye
has ever yet appeared, analmiscellaneous matter
which it is impossible to particularise here. In short., from
our own observation, we can
safely.es4robnounce this work a sine
qua ion to everybody who
I,lll"firLond • become acquainted with
the great metropolitan wor... 0 en.
Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, Dec. 22, 1841.
On our reference from time to time to the Post-office Direc-
tory of 1641, we felt convinced that nothing 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 classi-
fied that although it extends over some fifteen hundred large
,
closely printed pages, every depardtrnent of the compilation
might be consulted in a fete 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 he 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.

Sue, November 25, 1841.
We have great pleasure in noticing this useful work, of which
we have received an early c^PY
robably It
exceeds the size of the
Directory of last year, and P is the most complete and
• ands uio
correct town-guide yet published. The following outline of
A Street Directory, which in.
eludes gentry as well as traders;
the contents will enable the reader to form some idea of the
vast undertaking. It contains an Official Directory, with the
of all
cihvi ilne o
_names alphabetically arranged,dffi cteortshui
sn,daerre G
twoo -
vetehrnermpeunbt,licinetslitaebßliashnmk
eonftsE.ngland, East India House, and all
others, giving the panne at full length, of sixty thousand per-