2 JANUARY 1909, Page 31

The Post Office London Directory, with County Suburbs. (Kelly's Directories.

32s. 6d.. &c.)—There has boon a change in the shape of this volume which certainly makes it more con- venient to handle. A book that deals with so vast an area and so huge a population must be of the largest ; the question is how best to arrange the dimensions. The pages have been increased in size, made quarto, we might say, instead of octavo, and conse- quently diminished in number ; the thickness dimension, in short —and this is the most cumbrous—has been lessened, the other increased. For the rest, the volume is as excellent as usual ; we repeat praises bestowed more than once before on the admirable maps of (1) London; (2) suburbs. Golf clubs are wanting, for the most part, from the catalogue of suburban clubs.