A COMEDY ENTITLED, THE MERRY DAMES; OR, THE HUMOURIST'S TRIUMPH OVER THE POET IN PETTICOATS, AND THE GALLANT EXPLOITS OF THE KNIGHT OF THE COMB. A Comedy in Three Acts. New York, 1805. 8vo, pp. 30. MUNFORD, ROBERT COLONEL ROBERT MUNFORD was a distinguished patriot of the Revolution. His poems and plays were collected and published by his son William, noticed below. THE CANDIDATE. THE PATRIOTS. The above plays were published in a volume of _Minor Poems_ at Petersburg, Va., 1798. 8vo, pp. 206. MUNFORD, WILLIAM WILLIAM MUNFORD, son of the above, was born in Mecklenburg County, Va., in 1775, and died in Richmond, Va., June 21, 1825. At the age of twenty-one he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates. He was afterwards a senator from his district, was elected a member of the Privy Council of State, and continued in that office up to the time of his death. His chief literary work was a _Translation of Homer's Iliad_ in blank verse, which was not published during his life-time. ALMORAN AND HAMET. A Tragedy. Published in a volume of _Poems and Compositions in Prose on several occasions._ Richmond, 1798. 8vo, pp. 189, [1]. MURDOCK, J. THE TRIUMPHS OF LOVE; OR, HAPPY RECONCILIATIONS. A Comedy. Philadelphia, 1795. (Plate.) 12mo, pp. 83. THE POLITICIANS; OR, A STATE OF THINGS. A Dramatic Piece. Written by an American and a Citizen of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 1798. 8vo, pp. 37, and printed note. NEAL, JOHN JOHN NEAL, born in Portland, Me., August 25, 1793, died there June 21, 1876. He was entirely self-educated, and, after a few years of business occupation in Baltimore, he was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1819. He had already begun to have some popularity as a writer of stories, and in 1823 he was led to make a trip to England, in consequence of the popularity which his novels had acquired there. While in England he wrote several articles on America for the _Quarterly Review_, and enjoyed an intimacy with British men of letters, particularly Jeremy Bentham. On his return in 1828 he established _The Yankee_, and was an active journalist for half a century. To his energy is attributed the agitation of woman's suffrage, and the establishment of gymnasiums. He was Poe's first encourager. His _Recollections_ were published in 1869. OTHO. A Tragedy in Five Acts. Boston, 1819. 16mo, pp. 120. This play was written for Edmond Kean. It was entirely rewritten in _The Yankee_ for 1828. NOAH, MORDECAI MANUEL