“HUMAN YOUNG MAN"

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 829, 25 November 1929, Page 14

“HUMAN YOUNG MAN"

NEW PRINCE OF WALES BIOGRAPHY A better “best seller’* is not like! to appear for many a day than Tin Biography of the Prince of Wales by Walter and Leonard TomarDt sons of a Hull librarian, who htr more than achieved their object ; presenting the Prince of Wales ”as. very human young man.” What is more human than hi creeping out of bed in his nursery z Buckingham Palace, collecting iy sponges from the bathrooms and cro ping them from the balcony on iheads of sitters out during a ball, r his fighting, for half an hour ii i dormitory at Osborne, a naval cate who accused him of snobbery? It may be wondered, continues fe biography, whether the Prince reals: that accusation when, at a ball durii his stay at Panama, it was hinted | him that the women of social impor ance were feeling neglected becra he had several dances with the sunpretty partner. “She is an assistant in a dre; store.” the Prince was infonnec. “Really.” replied the Prince of Wai* “Well, it must be a jolly good store.” Many pages are devoted to tit Prince's trudging over the battlefield where he laid securely the basis c-fh wonderful popularity. The Prince j sisted on taking his place with w men in the line. “Have I not four brothers." h£ «■ tor ted to Lord Kitchener, who vu pointing out his responsibilities heir to the throne. “If I was certain that you would shot,” replied Lord Kitchener charfr teristically, “I do not know if I be right to restrain you. bat I permit the enemy to capture yc ,B Reuter.