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94 grain in a future mountain of mischief. At page 12, for example:

"Still her abuse of power did not stop here: it was not enough that she thus outraged her rights on the ocean; the bosoms of our bays, the mouths of our rivers, and even the wharves of our harbors, were made the theatres of the most flagitious abuse; and as if determined to leave no cause of provocation untried, the personal rights of our seamen were invaded: and men, owing her no allegiance, nor having any connection with her policy or arms, were forcibly seized, dragged on board her ships of war and made to fight her battles, under the scourge of tyrants and slaves, with whom submission, whether right or wrong, forms the whole duty of man."

We object, particularly here to the use of the verb forms in the present tense.

[Navigation, by Matthew Fontaine Maury, reviewed in The Southern Literary Messenger, June, 1836. Poe's interest in naval affairs is shown in many passages of his works, and his familiarity with nautical terms is equally evident in the Narrative of A. Gordon Pym. In his reviews of Lieutenant Alexander Slidell's books, he comments upon a naval officer now almost forgotten, while in the present review he commends the first publication of one who in later years was to be honored in all lands where naval science is held in esteem.]

This volume, from an officer of our Navy, and a Virginian, strongly commends itself to notice. The