22 OCTOBER 1932, Page 6

Things we might have been spared. This, across seven columns

of the Daily Mail : " MR. ASQUITH'S FER- VENT LOVE REVEALED IN HIS LETTERS. TO HIS MARGOT " ; and the full-page advertisement, on the day of publication of the biography, devoted to Lady Oxford's write-up of an instalment-system furnishing firm.

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