11 JANUARY 1890, Page 24

Thom's Official Directory, 1890. (Thom, Dublin ; Simpkin, Marshall, and

Co., London.)—Though this is described as being "an official directory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland," and, indeed, answers to its description, it must be understood that it has for its specialty information about Ireland, information which could scarcely be found collected elsewhere. A Dublin Directory is one of its features, and it has also the new Ordnance Map of Dublin. This is its forty-seventh year of publication.