The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-02 00:00:00

WICEILLY DIMPATCII, 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.
tine for 1845, contains a vast increase of useful matter when com..
pared with former ones. One important department now added,
is that which gives an official return of the .mount of the circula-
tion of notes by all private and joint.stock banks. Another divi.
sion of the work affords 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 over issued frost the press.
Barramtra, 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 pet it
together. Instead of being the sepulchre of one man it is the hire
of a living million, a •ast storehouse of facts, a library of commer.
offal 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 no 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, Nev. IC 1844.

Although this immense volume is now, we believe, literally un.
rivalled, the absence of a competitor dose 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 coal.
piete 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 " Of 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.
JOHN Bum., Nov. 23, 1844.

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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 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 posaibly wish to find),
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 in no
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 same vigi-
lance. In every point of view it is a work of vast utility, and in-
dispensable to all persons who hare any business to transact in