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Post - Office London Directory for 1836, comprising amongst other infor- mation,

an Official Directory, Street Directory, Trades Directory, Law Directory, Court Directory, Parliamentary Directory, &c. Sixty-seventh annual publication. (Kelly and Co.)—We have not read this work. Indeed, supposing any one had taken a vow to read its 2,850 close pages entirely through, we doubt whether the mechanical process could be performed by any known pair of eyes under a month's hard reading, if so soon, and this will give a notion of the vast labour employed in verifying an,d correcting it. But we have often consulted it, and found it wonderfully accurate and of wonderfully late date in its intelligence ; indeed a London directory to any one with a considerable London

acquaintance, or London business of any kind, is not merely a luxury, but a necessary of life.