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