The Post Office London Directory (Kelly and Co.) is an
institution so well known, and so indispensable, that a brief notice will suffice for it. But, however brief, such notice should be of emphatic praise. A task that yearly grows heavier—the Directory has increased by thirty-one pages since last year (2,858 as against 2,827)—is discharged with unfailing carefulness and precision. Official information is kept up to the latest date, and the ever- changing mass of facts relating to private enterprise and life maintained in a state of quite surprising correctness. A notable improvement has been made in the map. It is now coloured, the postal districts being thus distinguished from each other by a variety of hues (the characteristic letters might, perhaps, have been made a little bolder), while a ring represents the circle of which the four-mile measure from Charing Cross is the radius.
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