Show Tall Bikes and Nickel Novels Live Once More Reminiscence and Biography Biography Biography Bi Bi- Bi- Bi Pass in in- Review By THE NEA BOOK SURVEY Viewing the fad tad for books of or memoirs and reminiscent novels Julian and Ada Street have jumped on the band wagon and presented a new novel Tides which might be called The Mauve Decade a la Ia Chicago As a novel no it is fault faulty o but a at a bit of autobiography it i Is a feast zestfully prepared and not without richness of or savor The Chicago of or Julian Streets Street's boyhood Is really the hero of ot the book Dedicated to Those who were bo boys s 's and girls of Oakland the novel takes on at times the vances and the cataloguing style of old friends chattering together of or the tho nondescript incidents of or their common youth The persistent Insertion of ot references references refer refer- to John L. L Sullivan tire the Palmer house the high bicycles the comic song Clementine and the small round mutt muffs of or the eighties and nineties becomes and monotonous toward the end The story wanders through a amaze amaze amaze maze of reminiscence to an unsatisfying compromise at the close But nut It ha has its moments of ot dramatic I po power an and of or e poignancy ncy e are characters finely conceived conceived con conceived con con- and strongly drawn Sober drawn Sober sides Alan whose chief role Isto is isto isto to suffer surfer from rom the coarse and brutal misdeeds of ot others against which he lie is too proudly resentful to fight old old Zenas Zenal Wheelock the pioneer soul who dies swearing s he could lick his big weight In wildcats self self ish Florence Shire and unscrupulous lous bus Luke Holden The main virtue of the book is the unmistakable relish with which it was written The authors have lla-e had the pleasure of an extended monologue upon the tIle mellow memories mem mem- ones ories of or their childhood And be because because because be- be cause their pleasure Is so intense they manage to cOn e convey much of or it to readers who never knew the Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- ca cago o of or the cable cars cars The new bl biography graph of the Prince of ot Wales Vales H R. R H. H by Major F F. Ii E E. Verne Verney Doran proves principally pally vally that the author Is no It Is is the sort of campaign document document document docu docu- ment a national committee might Issue if It the prince were running for president But such uch a personality personality person person- allt with the advantage of ot not having to be elected to 10 anything The book does not concede that the prince as a naval cadet acquired acquired acquired ac ac- ac- ac a vocabulary in the i profane ton tongue ue which could rise to ti superb eloquence But wh what t of ot the princes prince's capacity to carry his liquor like a a. gentle gentle- T 9 I I II I AI JULIAN STREET man Does he prefer blondes When is he going to marry How does he accept his losses at MonteCarlo Monte MonteCarlo Carlo Callo How many suits of or clothes has he lle Who are his real chosen friends and what sort are the they What does he think of America after aCter his visits here What sort I or of person is he religiously economically eco ecu intellectually How does he get along with the Windsor fam family II Not that the bo book k la is bad It talks with flattering interest about a vastly In Interesting tere personage It lt makes the tIle point that he Je Is a a very ery great young man whom the com combined combined com com- om- om efforts of the civilized world have been unable to spoil Telling of plans for the boys boy's education education education edu edu- cation the book bool points out that the ultimate objective of or this scheme was not the provis provision on of or an exceptional exceptional education for a Prince of ot Wales Vales or the manufacture of or a King but the of a state servant servant whose character and personality would prove either an asset of incalculable incalculable in- in inI I calculable value to the British empire empire empire em- em pire or a grievous liability to the British constitution That sounds like Jile true doctrine The disappointment arises from the authors author's obvious limitations He fees ees th the prince from his own re restricted restricted re- re viewpoint of a regul regular ol 6 f regulars am among ng British military gentlemen The prince one believes believes believes be be- Is a great deal more of ot a i person that one sees her here |