The Government's first Honours List was published in the papers
of Tuesday. There are no new peers, and only two baronets. Mr. F. H. Bradley, the distinguished philosopher of Merton College, Oxford, and Sir Charles Sherrington, the President of the Royal Society, received the Order of Merit. Among the new knights we notice Mr. D. Y. Cameron, the distinguished etcher. Mr. T. P. O'Connor is made a Privy Councillor. The list is neither revolutionary nor very interesting, but on the whole it is an appreciable improvement upon the recent lists. We welcome the prominence given to a metaphysician and a physiologist. On looking through the list one recognizes that honours have been reserved for men who are known to have done something useful in the public service. There is no shower of honours upon nobodies who pre- sumably paid rather than worked their way into the places of honour.
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