16 SEPTEMBER 1916, page 5

Mr. Asquith.

M R. ASQUITH, who was sixty-four on Tuesday, would be touched if he knew how many people who never liked his domestic policy repeated to themselves the con- ventional good......

The Paradox Of Prices.

increase in prices. What is the good," many of them say, " of having 30s. a week instead of £1 when the £1 will now buy no more than 15s. used to buy before the rise in wages ?......