7 JANUARY 1837, Page 23

A Visit to London is intended as a Stranger's Guide

to every in- teresting object in the Metropolis; and contains the usual merits and faults of Mr. COGHLAN'S thirty-and-one Guides or Directors to various places in Europe : that is to say, the matter is useful, and distinctly arranged, and what is told is told in a business- like manner; but the stranger who should always follow our compiler implicitly would be considered strange indeed. For in- stance, he directs those " persons who may be desirous to gain ad- mission " to Almack's, that they must " insert their names in one of the Ladies' (Patronesses) books some time previous and is that all ?