27 APRIL 1867, Page 22

The Topographical Directory of Great Britain and Ireland. By Francis

Stephens. (Routledge.)—This book mast have given its com- piler infinite trouble, and it can be but of limited service. It seems to contain the name of every village in the United Kingdom, or at least i&1 an enormous proportion of the whole number. We missed two or three -

names, and no doubt most people would miss some two or three familiar to them, and to them only. The book will answer well for legal phra- seology, where Newcastle is not enough, but must be described as the borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in the county of Northumberland, or perhaps at even greater length, for the sake of the copyists.