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The Joint - Stock Companies' Directory for 1865. (Charles Barker and Sons,

Birchin lane, printed by King.)--This useful, and for mercantile men almost indispensable, directory is divided so as to give the greatest. possible facilities for obtaining information with regard to all joint-stock enterprises, and all persons officially connected with joint-stock com- panies. The classification is into "Railway, Assurance, Banking, Finance, and Credit, and Miscellaneous Companies," and the directors' names are also indexed alphabetically in a separate directory, which shows the whole number of companies with which each director's name is connected. For many important purposes this list directory is obviously of the first importance to all who wish to form a sound opinion on the character of managements.