Text: Anonymous, “[Review of The Narrative of A. G. Pym],” Sunday Morning News (New York, NY), vol. IV, no. 13, August 5, 1838, p. 2, col. 5

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LITERARY.

Pym's adventures and discoveries. — The title of this book, just issued by Messrs. Harper, is “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket, compromising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of June, 1827, with an account of the recapture 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 course of this latter vessel in the Antartic [[Antarctic]] Ocean, her capture and the massacre of her crew among a group of islands, in the 85th parallel of southern latitude, together with the incredible adventures and discoveries still further south, to which that distressing calamity gave rise.” We cannot pretend to subscribe to the truth of all the wonders therein related, but the lovers of the marvellous will have a fine treat for a summer's day in its perusal.