The New Year's Honour list, if not specially exciting, at
least avoids the imputation of being either lavish or partial. Peerages are conferred on Sir George Sydenham Clarke, whose wide experience and varied talents will make him a valuable accession to the House of Lords, and on Sir George Kemp, till recently Liberal member for North-west Manchester. Amongst the Privy Councillors are Sir John Simon, the Solicitor-General, and Lord Desalt, the late Director of Public Prosecutions. The seven new baronets include Mr. T. G. Jackson, R.A., the well-known architect, Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Scott, who has done so much to improve naval gunnery and marksmanship, and two members of Parliament, Sir Maurice Levy, a Liberal, and Lieut.-Colonel Joseeline Bagot, a Unionist. Of the new knights, of whom there are thirty-two in all, Mr. Francis Darwin, F.R.S., attracts special notice ; and other recipients of the honour are Mr. Essex, a Liberal M. P., Mr. Frank Re,e, General Manager of the London and North-western Railway, Mr. G. W. Forrest, the historian of the Mutiny, and Mr. W. G. Tyrrell, who for the last five years has been Sir Edward Grey's chief private secretary at the Foreign Office.
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