29 JANUARY 1887, Page 26

Street's Indian and Colonial Mercantile Directory for 1886-87.— This is

the eleventh annual issue of a useful directory for merchants, traders, and shippers, its title suggesting the subjects fall details and partionlare of which are given in its pages. It contains maps of the principal countries, showing the relative positions of the chief towns; also lists of leading merchants, traders, manufacturers, and professional men, Government officials, trade returns, tariffs, popula- tions, products, railways, average time of transit by steam and sailing vessels, and other matters in which the classes for whom the compilation is intended are concerned.