The Post Office London Directory. (Kelly and Co.)—The volume for
1886 is the eighty-seventh annual issue of this useful and care- fully compiled directory. Its correctness up to date of publication may be gauged by the facts that it contains the returns to the new Parliament up to December 11th, also the complete returns to the new London School Board, the chairman and vice-chairman of which were not elected until December 3rd. During the present year 21 streets have been renamed, 18 have been renumbered, and 62 names of new atreets have been introduced ; 167 new trades have been added to the list. Messrs. Kelly now undertake to supply the "London directory" in eight separate divisions, also local sections of the "Suburban directory," a highly commendable arrangement, and one it is to be hoped that the public will appreciate.
Messrs. J. F. Sohipper and Co. have sent as some lively and well. executed Christmas cards. Their portfolio of Turner pictures, how- ever, seems to us to embody a rather hopeless attempt to realise Turner to the mind by small pictures printed in colours. Doubtless, they remind all who know the pictures of the originals, but they remind us -of them painfully rather than pleasantly. Some of the landscapes (not taken from Turner), and many of the birds, flowers, and figures, are very good.
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