Post-Offloe London Directory, 1895. (Kelly and Son.)—This huge volume grows
and grows, like the city to which it supplies so marvellously complete a guide. Its bulk has increased since last year by scores of pages. In the matter of late corrections, the zeal of the publishers merits the highest praise. They manifestly take all possible pains to make it in this respect up-to-date. One matter we shall mention for the third time, for it is really a pity that a thing so absurd and so easily corrected should be repeated year after year. The Directory has a " trade " section, in which various employments are very elaborately divided. We turn to "Marble," for instance, and find that there are separate headings of" Marble Chimneypiece Makers," "Marble Decorators," "Marble Flooring," "Marble Merchants," "Marble Mosaic Pavement Makers," "Marble-Top Table Manufacturers." Will it be believed that under the head of " Publishers " there is nothing but a reference to a huge miscellaneous list which contains, besides Publishers proper, "Fancy Stationers," "Account-Book Makers," and "Bookbinders " ? It is really a very slovenly thing. What is the good of boasting in the prefftee of having added 217 new trades to this year's issue, such as "Amber Miners," " Wolfra- minium Manufacturers," and the like, when a most important class is treated in this unintelligent fashion ? We will add what is, we fear, a counsel of perfection. If Messrs. Kelly would make their volume as interesting as a romance, let them put the rateable value of all the houses. The "Dublin Directory" does this.
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