“High as has been the reputation acquired by the many authoresses of our country,
we shall be mistaken if the writer of `Alone' and of `The Hidden Path' does not take
ere long, place and precedence. She combines as many excellences with as few faults
as any one we can at the present writing call to mind. There is an originality in her
thinking which strikes one with a peculiar force, and he finds himself often unconsciously
recurring to what has had such a powerful effect upon him. She is emphatically an
authoress not to be forgotten; her works are no short-lived productions, for they have
in them a genius, a power and a purpose.”

“It forms a series of delightful home pictures, changing from place to place, but
chiefly confined to Virginia, the writer's native State, and she paints its beauties with a
master hand. She loves her native State, and has paid it no mean tribute in her book.
We congratulate the young and gifted authoress for having produced a work so remarkable
for its delicacy, purity and general worth, and prophesy for her a brilliant and
successful career in the world of letters.”

“It will every way sustain the praise so worthily won by the author's first effort. It
exhibits the same healthful sentiment and beautiful feeling, the same truthful simplicity
and yet charming elegance, the same just appreciation of different phases of social and
domestic life. The tale is one of American life, and is most aptly and gracefully
wrought.”

“ `The Hidden Path' is a work of originality and genius, full of striking thoughts,
beautiful descriptions, and graceful conversation, and just interesting enough as a story to
carry the reader through a volume from the perusal of which one rises better at heart and
with a more genial, kindly feeling toward humanity in general.”

We have read `The Hidden Path' with unmingled pleasure. It is one of the best
novels of the day. The promise given by Miss Harland in her `Alone' has been fully
met. She takes rank among the best writers of fiction of this age. The story is interesting;
the language pure, often eloquent; the plot natural and interesting; and the mora
excellent.”

“We take the liberty of confidently commending it to our readers as one of those
gentle, earnest books which will be found acceptable to all pure hearts, and become, we
sincerely trust, an especial favorite with the women readers of America.”

“Home, sincerity and truth, are invested with most attractive charms, and their value
enhanced by painful contrasts. While engaging the imagination by its well-conceived
plot, it makes all submit to its moral impression, and enlists the reader's approbation
exclusively with the virtuous and true.”

“Its great charm, like that of `Alone,' consists in the sincerity which pervades it, and
in the delicate sentiments of love and friendship which, in all their unadulterated sweetness,
throw a magic grace over the whole volume.”