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THE WESTMINSTER REVIEWADVERTISEME NTS intended for insertion ^ tsift sEssaar ^ r&iSiSRsa . Bills and Prospectuses by the 27 th . Office , 8 , King William street , Strand .
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jKow publishing , in 2 . G 00 pages . Imperial Octavo , price 36 s . ITHE POST OFFICE LONDO 2 T DIRECTORY 1 FOR 1856 . MOST gratifying Reviews of the huge volume have appeared in all the leading Metropolitan Journals , of which only very short extracts can be Here quoted . " In short , this work contains all that can reasonably be required in a Directory , and much more , probably , than Was ever found in one before . It may be safely referred to for information upon everything connected with the metropolis and the elements which constitute its wealth and importance . "—Times , December 8 , 1855 . "It is indeed a triumph of energy , enterprise , and combined talents of many orders , to which , upon reflection , everyone will be ready to assign the merit it deserves . " — Morning Advertiser , Nov . 12 , 1855 . " There has been competition , but it has passed away ; for it has been too carefully and sedulously edited , too prompt in its intelligence , too simple in its plan , and too judicious in its classifications , to admit of successful rivalry . " —Morning Herald , November 12 , 1855 . " An indispensable necessity , not only in the countinghouses of the mercantile part Of the community , but also in the halls of the great and fashionable . "—Morning Chronicle , Nov . 16 , 1855 . " The absence of competition does not appear to have led the publishers to bestow less care upon the preparation of the work . "—Morning Post , Nov . 30 , 1855 . " The hugest and the most accurate of all our popular compilations . "—Sun , Nov . 10 , 1855 . " The extent and quality of the information contained in the volume has , as far as we knoiv , never been equalled in a publication of the lciud . "— Globe , Nov . 15 , 1853 . " This annual wonder has just appeared , and , on the present occasion , it has appeared without a rival , having in this year driven every competitor from , the field . Even they who , like ourselves , dislike monopoly , acknowledge the justice of monopoly fairly won by decided excellence . " — Standard , Nov . 1 G , 1855 . " Its fame is too well established , its pretensions to be what it professes too thoroughly justified , and its comprehensiveness too immense , to admit of any other consequence than disastrous loss to the speculator who would blindly hope to supplant it . "—Shipping Gazette , Nor . 23 , 18 A 5 . ' ? Even as there is no city in the world which can compare with the metropolis as the abode of aristocracy and commerce , so it is equally beyond dispute that there is but one ' Directory . '"—Church and . State G'azette , Nov . 16 , 1855 . " The whole work exhibits a mas 3 of accurate information . "— Alias , Nov . 17 , 1855 . " There is an old joke about the man who sat down patiently to read through a dictionary , and complained of the variety of its subjects . What would lie have said to the ' Post Office Directory of I 85 S , ' with its pregnant line about everybody ?"—BelCs Weekly Messenger . Nov . 17 , 1855 . "If any . one would really understand in what consists the strength of London , let him study this work . "—lirihuwhi , Nov . 17 , 1855 . " The opponent of the production before us has ceased to exist , it appearing that , even after the collection of the information for next , year , and the work being in type , the sale would be insufficient to repay the mere expense of printing . The ' l ' ost Office Directory' is now alone in the ield , but we are glad to see that the exertions ot the proprietors are undimuiished . "—Court Journal , Wov , 17 , 1855 . ' This has become a work of national importance . It has been said we could not afford ( o lo-e our Timns—the same observation applies to our ' Post Office Directory . '"—Hern , ( nidi's Journal , Nov 17 , 155 . "The proprietors of this work liave now the field to themselves ; but that they have not relaxed in theii-exertions on that account is fully evident from the completeness of the Directory for the coming year . " —Illustrated London News , NOV . 17 , 1855 . " Still swelling its dimensions , as the ever-increasing area of the vast metropolis increases . "— folia Hull , Nov . 17 , 1855 . " A work of similar character , though by no means equal in correctness of arrangement and detail , lias , after nil ephemernl existence , entailing enormous loss to its projectorB , been at length abandoned . It nppeur . H to \ w beyond question that the sale of so exclusive and peculiar a work will never repnythe expense of preparing two such publications , "which , if accurate , must , bo counterparts of ouch other . " —Mining Journal , Nov . 17 , 1855 . " Kxtenf ., variety , and accuracy of information , so fur as wo have hud occasion to test it , M not the only feature of the book . ' — Spectator , Nov . 17 , 1805 . " This wonderful volume is a proof that ( he work of organisation and administration oan bu performed by Englishmen with such admirable completeness us to amount to perfection itself . ' Kely ' s Directory' was always unrivalled . "—»<( , Nov . la , lHar > . "It is certainly one of the literary phenomena of the ago "—Sunday Times , Nov . IH , 1805 . ' It enjoys a deserved reputation never achieved by » ny work of itu olass . "— ll- ' uulHtj Times , Nov . IS , IMS . ) . " It is one of tho marvels of tho present age . ' '—O . Wv / w , NOV . 1 !) , IB !) 5 . 11 There ia certainly no bettor guWlo to the contents of London than tho Directory . "—Nunconjonnii . 1 , Nov . 21 , lH , ' ., > . " Tho rival Directory lias given up a buttle in which victory wna Hcnrccly to ho won . But what of thu future of tlila wonderful book ' r As it lies on Its Hide It stands already some two hands hl ^ h , nnd to ttpremi out tho map implies the covering of an ordinary tuL > lo . "—JCjuuniiu .- /; Nov . - > J , J » o . > . " Since lust year n fruitiest ) attempt to establish iv second ' London Directory ' hits been , wi . soly abandoned . Theru id no room for n rival work of this magnitude . " —Lilvmr » i Oumvtte , Nov . 21 , 18 . W . " Ira dally and hourly utility nlono is sulnolont to rocomxnondit . "—Weakly JJis ^ aic / i , Nov . lift , lafts . " Wo have t 03 ted tho lateness of tho period up to which it hna boon corrected , by referring to ohiwigoH within our own knowledge , nnd wo are bound to say that In every oaso wo have found that tho Directory han recorded tho ohnngo , although nomo of thorn hnva been of very recent occurrence . *— Lttiuter , Deo . I , 18 fi » . "Tho acouruoy , fulness , olonr and careful printing , aro beyond all praise . "— JCcaiwmittt , December , s , I 8 fto . " Tho attempt to establish n , iIvmI Directory has failed . Tho undertaking was a hopoleus , olmoiifc ait Impossible one . " —I ' rest , December 8 , ltt&o . Kbx . lv and Co ., 19 , ao , and 21 , Old Boswoll . court ; ana ^ U Booksellers .
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m ..,.. THE LEADER [ No . 299 , Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 15, 1855, page 1210, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2119/page/22/
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