Listic fashion the fact that he had but one eye. When a boy, one of his playmates at school threw a stone, which hit his right eye. But though
he was thus early made single-visioned, he saw more than his contemporaries; for he was a man who mingled much in the social life of the time, and he had a variety of friends, among them Charles Brockden Brown, the novelist, and George

Frederick Cooke,
the tragedian. He was the biographer for both of them, and these volumes are filled with anecdote, which throws light, not only on the subjects, but upon the observational taste of the writer. There are those who claim that he was unjust

to Cooke, making him more of a drunkard than he really was. And the
effect the book had on some of its readers may excellently well be seen by Lord Byron's exclamation, after having finished it. As quoted by Miss Crawford, in her "Romance of the American Theatre," he said: "Such a book! I believe,
since 'Drunken Barnaby's Journal,' nothing like it has drenched the press. All green-room and tap-room,
drams and the drama. Brandy, whiskey-punch, and, latterly, toddy, overflow every page. Two things are rather marvelous; first, t hat a man should live so long drunk, and next that he should have found a sober biographer." Dunlap's first play was called "The Modest Soldier; or, Love in New York" (1787). We shall let him be his own chro