JOHN BLAKE WHITE, born in South Carolina in 1783, died 1859. He was an artist, lawyer and dramatist, residing in Charleston. FOSCARI; OR, THE VENETIAN EXILE. A Tragedy in Five Acts, as performed at the Charleston Theatre. Charleston, 1806. 12mo, pp. 52. THE MYSTERIES OF THE CASTLE; OR, THE VICTIM OF REVENGE. A Drama in Five Acts. Charleston, 1807. 16mo, pp. 65. MODERN HONOUR; OR, THE VICTIM OF REVENGE. A Tragedy. Charleston, 1812. 12mo. TRIUMPH OF LIBERTY; OR, LOUISIANA PRESERVED. A National Drama. Charleston, 1819. 12mo. THE FORGERS. A Drama. Played at Charleston, S. C., 1825. Published in _The Southern Literary Messenger_, March, 1857, and reprinted New York, 1899. WHITE, WILLIAM CHARLES WILLIAM CHARLES WHITE, born in Worcester, Mass., made his début on the stage in Boston in 1796, and in New York, at the Park Theatre, January 19, 1801, as _Young Norval_. He afterwards studied law and gave up the stage. ORLANDO; OR, PARENTAL PERSECUTION. A Tragedy, as performed at the Theatre, Federal Street, Boston. Boston, 1797. Portrait of Wm. C. White. 18mo, pp. 64. THE CLERGYMAN'S DAUGHTER. A Tragedy in Five Acts, as performed at the Boston Theatre, with the Epilogue by R. T. Paine, Jr. Boston, 1810. 16mo, pp. 96. WILLIAMSON, A. J. PRESERVATION; OR, THE HOVEL OF THE ROCKS. A Play in Five Acts. Charleston, 1800. 8vo, pp. vii.-75. WILMER, LAMBERT A. LAMBERT A. WILMER, born in 1805, died in Brooklyn, December 21, 1863, was editor of the Brooklyn _Saturday Visitor_, and of _The Pennsylvanian_ in Philadelphia. He was the author of _The Quacks of Helicon_. MERLIN. A Drama. Philadelphia, 1823. 12mo. GLORIANA; OR, THE ENCHANTRESS OF ELBA. A Drama. Published in a weekly paper in Philadelphia about 1828. WOODWORTH, SAMUEL SAMUEL WOODWORTH, born in Scituate, Mass., January 13, 1785, died in New York City, December 9, 1842. His father was a soldier of the Revolution. In early life he chose the profession of a printer, and went to Boston, where he bound himself apprentice to Benjamin Russell, editor of _The Columbian Sentinel_. During this time he employed his leisure in writing poetry for different periodicals in that city over the signature of "Selim." In 1807 he published a weekly paper in New Haven called _The Belles-Lettres Repository_. The next year he went to Baltimore, where many of his best poems were published. He came to New York in 1810, and during the War of 1812 published a weekly newspaper entitled _The War_. He also edited, at different times, _The Halcyon Luminary and Theological Repository_, _The Casket_, _The Parthenon_, and _The Literary Gazette_. He also was one of the founders and editors of _The New York Mirror_. In 1816 he published _Champions of Freedom_. THE DEED OF GIFT. A Comic Opera in Three Acts, as performed at the Boston Theatre. New York, 1822. 18mo, pp. 72.