Text: Anonymous, “[Comment on A. G. Pym],” Philadelphia Saturday Courier (Philadelphia, PA), vol. VIII, no. 354, August 4, 1838, p. 2, col. 5

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NEW WORKS.

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Pym's Adventure's [[Adventures]] and Discoveries, with an account of a Horrible Butchery, Famine, etc. Together with incredible adventures still father South, etc.

And so on and so forth. Here is a book with a title page as long as a table of contents, and as full of “incredibles” as man can desire. The Harpers have given us an affair that throws Munchausen into the shade, and Jack the Giant Killer is a fool to “Peters.” Pym professes to have been close to the South Pole, far beyond the 84 parallel of Southern Latitude, and to have undergone all manner of adventures. Will the Southern Literary Messenger explain the reference to it in the preface of the book? When we can fine a respectable endorser for Pym's statements, we will think of believing them.

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Southern Literary Messenger. August number.

We have read but one article, “Remarks on a Review of Bacon,” in which M’Cauley's Edingburgh Review article is most ably handled. The remarks are of an quality, both as to composition and thought, that far excels the ordinary magazine contributions, and alone gives character to this number of the Messenger. We hope the editor will enlighten us about Pym in his next.