+ N Y Times 25:39 Ja 25 ’20 750w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Review 2:111 Ja 31 ’20 150w
“This author has been compared to both Balzac and Maupassant; but it seems to us that his nearest double in French fiction would be Anatole France, with whom he has in common a fine irony which directs the thought of the reader to fundamental ills in present-day social relationships.”
+ Survey 44:352 Je 5 ’20 200w
ZANELLA, NORA. By the waters of Fiume. *$1.35 (*3s 6d) Longmans 940.3436
20–4795
“This little book purports to have been written by an English girl who married a young Italian of Fiume just before the war. The husband had to serve as a conscript in the Austrian army, and was shot for refusing to fire on the Italians. The wife survived him only a few months. Whether or not the story is true it represents faithfully enough the Italian sentiments of the majority of the people of Fiume and their sufferings during a war in which all their sympathies were with the Allies and against their Austrian and Croatian oppressors.” (Spec) The facts of the author’s life are told by her sister, Madame de Lucchi, in an introduction.
“You can tell what Fiume is like by reading the early pages of this book.”