This story of a woman of moods, the daughter of a Pennsylvania iron master, who married a young mining engineer, regretted it, left him, and later awoke to the realization that she loved him, is also the story of the mines, the iron workers, and the blast furnace.
“A leisurely and very charming picture of a Quaker settlement in Pennsylvania in 1856.”
| + | Acad. 68: 785. Jl. 29, ‘05. 330w. |
“It is a pleasure to notice a romance of American life so instinct with artistic, literary and scientific excellence as ‘Hecla Sandwith.’ Here speaks the poet, the historian and the psychologist.”
| + + + | Arena. 34: 106. Jl. ‘05. 800w. |
“The chief fault of the book is lack of concentration.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + — | Bookm. 21: 517. Jl. ‘05. 380w. |
“There is too much narrative here. The descriptions of nature are poetic, the minor characters are particularly well drawn, and many of the pictures linger in the memory.”
| + — | Critic. 46: 479. My. ‘05. 150w. |
“The story is a long one, and not firmly knit together. A book that preserves with almost photographic fidelity the manners and customs of a time fully departed.”