“The scene of this novel is laid in Kentucky.... A scheming woman, poor and beautiful, ensnares a man whose nature demanded a nobler companion spirit than hers. Unhappiness, disgrace, and tragedy followed their marriage. But, with the power bestowed upon novelists, the author restores the worthy characters to happiness and consigns the unworthy to their own place.”—Outlook.
“If only her pictorial sense were better developed,—if she were half as good in the composition of her plot as she is in the use of verbal colouring,—‘The invisible bond’ would be a very uncommon and interesting book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 23: 539. Jl. ’06. 490w.
“The best feature of the book is the picture of Kentucky life, which is attractive and not overdrawn.”
+ – Critic. 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 130w.
“This sweet and wholesome tale, although by no means devoid of dramatic excitement, has nevertheless a tranquillizing effect upon the mind; it seems somehow to have a life apart from the sickly everyday world, and to breathe an air of its own, pure and uninfected by the malaria of most current fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 41: 115. S. 1, ’06. 230w. Ind. 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 50w.
“Impresses us as a first book, one of interest and of promise, but crude in its performance, and suffering greatly from its prolixity.”
– + N. Y. Times. 11: 323. My. 19, ’06. 250w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 100w. Outlook. 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 60w.