Most of the decorations were kept in their places for the best part of a week in order to do honour to the Queen on her birthday, on the eve of which she had left Windsor for Balmoral. The official celebration in London-took place on the 23rd, and accordingly on the morning of that d the customary list of honours was published. To the ordinary reader it proved more than usually disappointing. It is of course too soon for the distribution of honours—other than promotions—to the heroes of the war; and in the whole list of
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