7 NOVEMBER 1863, Page 23

The Charities of London. By Sampson Low, jun. (Sampson Low,

Son, and Co.)—A reprint of this useful directory, together with a supplement containing some additional information. The supplement, however, seems to have been issued as a complete work, and is, in fact, an abridgment of the directory arranged alphabetically. Thus a large part of it merely repeats the original work. Mr. Low should have compiled a supplement really containing only additional informa- tion, which would certainly not have occupied one quarter the space. This is, in fact, two books bound together, so that each may supply the defects of the other.