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Books.

MEMOIRS OF BARRAS.* THE new volumes of the Memoirs of Barras show their writer in quite as nnamiable a light as did the first two. The sense of disgust and indignation is indeed......

Poetry.

' SWEEP ': AN ELEGY. POOR bird! you left your windy shaws A callow squab, with vigorous caws Denouncing man, his ways and laws And dull dominions; But age and philosophic pause......