21 DECEMBER 1872, Page 21

CURRENT LITERATURE.

The London Post-Office Directory for 1873.—This wonderful book, quite the most wonderful, in the mechanical sense, of our literary pro- ductions, has appeared for the coming year, and seems to be corrected as usual to the very latest date, even in one case to a date in the present month. It is impossible to overpraise the execution of this gigantic work, containing probably as much print as two yearly volumes of the Spectator, for every detail of which the most perfect accuracy is essential.