Text: Anonymous, “[Review of The Narrative of A. G. Pym],” Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer (New York, NY), vol. XIX, whole no. 3,486, July 30, 1838, p. 2, col. 2

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Literary. — The Messrs. Harper have just published a duodecimo volume under the following title: — “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket; comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas — with an account of the re-capture of the vessel by the survivors; their shipwreck, and subsequent horrible sufferings from famine; their deliverance by means of the British schooner Jane Guy; the brief cruise of this latter vessel in the Antartic [[Antarctic]] Ocean; her capture, and the massacre of her crew among a group of islands in the 84th parallel of southern latitude; together with the incredible adventures and discoveries still further South, to which that distressing calamity gave rise.” There is certainly an array of horrors set forth in the title; but the volume is highly interesting, and well written; and to the lovers of marvellous fiction will be quite a treasure.