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

MORNING liseALD, Nov. 19, 1644.

The edition for 1845 of this very useful work has just been
issued. The usefulness of the volume, as well as the immense
labour that must have been expended In completing It, will be best
judged of from a brief enumeration of its contents. The first
portion of the work comprises a list of the hotels and convenient
inns throughout England and Wales, with the names of the occu-
pants and the population according to the census of 1841. This,
which extends over seventeen pages of small but clear type, is
treble columns, is succeeded by the " Official Directory," which
commences with an alphabetical list of persons holding situa-
tions under the Crown, in the East India House, Bank of England,
and the various law, city, and all other public offices, and is followed
by the division of the above into their proper departments, where
the names of the offices are again given. This portion of the work
is very faithfully compiled, and extends over about fifty pages.
Next comes a list of the principal thoroughfares of the metropolis,
with a direction to the post.office nearest to each thoroughfare.
The more bulky portion of the work follows—the " Street Direc-
tory," and extends over nearly 500 pages. The " Commercial and
Professional Directory" succeeds, occupying also nearly 500 pages ;
then the " Trades Directory," of upwards of 450 paps ; the " Law
Directory'' of some 70 pages; the " Court Directory" of nearly
lOU pages ; a statistical account of the metropolis ; the " City Di-
rectory ;" the " Conveyance Directory" of some 120 pages ; the
" Banking Directory" of 140 pages ; and the " Assurance Direc-
tory" of some 40 pages.
The typographica Icharacter of the volume is as commendable as
the fulness and faithfulness o ]the work itself.
MoeNINO ADVERTISER, Nov. 15, 1844.

This work, which has now stood the teat of public opinion for
❑early half a century, has just appeared. The edition for the pre-
sent year having been all sold, it became necessary to supply the
void thus occasioned arid the result has been the production of the
work ,t this early period. Notwithstanding the rapidity with
which it has passed through the press, its general accuracy has been
carefully prt-served. It is rea:ly wonderful how so vast a masa
of metar can be compiled so accurately and so well. We have
looked .-.rough the pages of the " Directory" with the view of
testing correctness, and we are bound to say, that in no one in-
stance c a find ever the slightest ground to impugn its con-
summate iitity. _

Sox, Nov. 14, 1844.
This work has now reached its forty-sixth annual publication,
and latterly it has been brought out on such a eonaprehensive, eor.
rest, and extensive system, that it has driven all competitors from
the field.
The " Postal Directory," which has been compiled with great
care, furnishes complete instruction as to the dispatch of letters
and newspapers to all parts of the world ; and the list of the princi-
pal places in England and Wales has been greatly enlarged.
There is also a useful notice respecting the obliterating stamps
used at the post-office, with the list of the towns and the respective
figures prefixed, which shows at once the place where the letter is
posted, and thereby remedies a very common defect—the illegibility
of the country post-office mark of the town.
Besides these, there are several other improvements which
contribute materially to the convenience of consulting a work so
multifarious, and which contains not fewer than 1,980 pages of
close, but very distinct, letter-press. This Directory is, perhaps,
the most complete manual of the kind ever published.
.ITERKLY DISPATCH, 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-
tion for 1845, contains a vast inorease of useful matter when com-
pared with former ones. One important department now added,
is that which gives an official return of the amount of the circula-
tion of notes by all private and joint-stock banks. Another divi-
sion of the work affbrds 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
moat useful work of the kind ever issued from the press.
BRITANNIA, 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 put it
together. Instead of being the sepulchre of one man it is the hive
of a living million, a vast storehouse of facts, a library of commer-
cial 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 uo item of information which cars 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, Nov. 16, 1844.
Although this immense volume Is now, we believe, literally un-
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 con.
plete exhibition of a great city that perhaps ever was made; iu 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.
Joust Butt, Nov. 93, 1844.
This " monster volume" is really a curiosity in its way. When
we turn over its two thou.and closely-printed pages, and reflect
upon the enormous mass of information which these pages contain
—lnformation 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 rind),
we do say that this " Post Office Directory" Is a most extraor.
dinary undertaking. As 3 proof of the vigilance which has been
exercised in bringing down the matter to the latest possible period,
Lord Western's name wi l not he found in the " Parliamentary
Directors." Similar instances of attention might be adduced. As
tests e have ',art,: to several names of persons among our own
acqu-. nr..n. wins have r' cent 4 changed their residence, and in no
one CAE:: ilve we found the change overlooked. This is ocnclusive
proof II tt ^ general care that is bestowed to render the work ac-
curate as las voluminous; for it is fair to conclude that any one
applying test within his own range, would rind the same vigi-
lance. In every point of view it is a work of vast utility, and in-
, dispensable to all persons who have any business to transact in