Messua,

For contemporary reviews, you might consider browsing on-line the extensive
collections of 19th c. American magazines and journals available through the
Making of American project. They offer scanned graphic images of every page
of a good number of magazines (incl. full runs of the Atlantic Montly and
Harpers). What's more, the Michigan collection is searchable by content
(coming soon to Cornell I hear). Anyway, you might find a good number of
reviews if you look at magazine issues from the corresponding years of
publication for TS and P&P.

The web addresses are as follows. For Cornell:
http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/MOA-JOURNALS2.html

Michigan:
http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/

Good luck.  - Nic

Nicolas Witschi
University of Oregon