23 DECEMBER 1871, Page 28

Post - Office London Directory. 1872. (Dolly.)—This wonderful book 'has reappeared, and

as usual, with the latest alterations. Sir Frederick Rogers appears in it as Lord Blachford, and Sir Roderick Murchison (whose death was only known on the 23rd of October) has disappeared from it altogether, to appear in it no more. Even Lord Chesterfield has .disappeared from the Parliamentary Directory, and Sir Robert Collier appears in his now and not, perhaps, altogether enviable distinction as a Judge of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. In bulk the Directory necessarily increases with every year. By the end of the nineteenth century it will probably make a very roomy and substantial, if a somewhat heavy and too instructive table. Its cubic content, to say nothing of its much more surprising contents, is already very largo.