A Difficult Theme
ML'. Cilbert Frankau, in his new iV novel, "Farewell Romance," deals with a difficult theme with restraint and yet with a quiet persistence which the reader cannot ignore.
David Lewis, a Jewish trader of a fine type, has a beautiful invalid Avife, and not until the early forties is he attracted by another woman, who is as capable in business as David himself. There, is nothing sordid in the story, for David is trim to his wife to the day of her death—the euthanasia episode is one of the ethical problems raised —but. eventually David takes up the cause of the persecuted .lews of Europe, and solves his personal problem tit the same time.
| - Mr. Frankau is always up lo dale. 'The .lubih f King George, Mussolini, ike Arabs and .lews in I'alestine j are nil brought in, while Ihe farewell i,i romance is slowly enacted, nol only in ihe case id' David, bnl his doctor friend and others. As the teller id' a story and ihe master of technique Mr. Frankau in (his respoci succeeds to the position held by Mr. John Gals- , wort hy.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19124, 19 September 1936, Page 9
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189A Difficult Theme Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19124, 19 September 1936, Page 9
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