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Paris, and exliibited in IHTS at the international exposition. In lier stuilio in New York slie niaile portrait marbles of Swedenborg, Garfiekl, I'arlyle, Tburlow Weed, George Eliot and several family j^rmijis.

BROOKS, Charles, elergyman, was born at M.'in.rd. Mas.s.. Oct. 30. 179.1. After his gradua- tion from Harvard college in 1816, he was a Liy-reader in the Episcopal church, and in 1821 was installed as pastor of tlie 3d Congregational church at Hingham, Mass. This pastorate he ret;vined for seventeen years, resigning in 1838 to accept the chair of natural history at the University of the city of New York. The following year he went to Europe, where he remained imtil 1S43. devoting his time to the stud}- of natural liistory. He resigned the professoi-ship at the university in 1844 on account of failing eyesight. He was an interested and inteUigent worker in improving the schools of New England, both in the common and normal departments, introduc- ing suggestions from the Prussian educational system. Among his publications are : "History of Med ford," published in 1855; biographical works embraced in ten vokmies; " The Christian in his Closet '■ ; '' Elements of Ornithology "' ; " In- troduction to Ornithology "; " Peace, Labor and Education in Europe " ; and many short articles, essays and sermons. He died July 7, 1872.

BROOKS, Charles Timothy, clergyman and author, was born at Salem, Mass., June 20, 1813. He was graduated at Harvard college in 1832, and pursued a course of theology at the Cam- bridge divinity school, where he was graduated in 1835. He preached in various Unitarian churches in New England, his first sermon being delivered at Nahant, Mass. On June 4, 1839, he was ordained as pastor of the Unitarian church at Newport, R. I., where he remained for forty- six years. In 1853 he made a visit to India, and in 1865 visited England and the continent. He was distinguished as a translator of German works, his renderings of some of the modern Ger- man poets being unsurpassed for fidelity and flowing grace. He made many contributions to contemporary literature. He published a trans- lation of Schiller's "William Tell" (1837); " German Lyrics " (1838) ; " Schiller's Homage of the Arts" (184G); " Aquidneck " and other I)oems (1848) ; " The Old Stone Mill Contro- versy '* (1851) ; " German Lyrics " (1853) ; "Songs of Field and Flood" (1853); Goethe's "Fau-st" (1856); "The Simplicity of Christ's Teachings," and other sermons (1859); Jean Paul Richters "Titan" (1862); Kortum's ••The Jobsia<l" (1863); Jean Paul Richter's "Hesjierus" (2 vols., 1864); Leopold Schef- er's *• Layman's Breviary" (1867); "Roman Rln-mes" (1869); "Puck's Nightly Pranks"

(1871); M. Busch's '"Max and Maurice" (1871); M. Busch's •• The Tall Student " (1873) ; Leojjold Schefer's "World Priest" (1873); "A History of the Unitarian Cluirch in Newport, R. I." (1875) ; Auerbach's " Poet and Merchant," " The Convicts,'' and"Lorley and Rein hard " (1877); " Channing, " a centennial memory, (1880): Riickert's " The Wisdom of tlie Brahmin" (1882) ; M. Busch's " Plish and Plum " (1883) ; " Augustus Story,'' a memorial (1883) ; Richter's " Invisible Lodge " (1883). In his latter daj's he also issued several children's books, and he left unpublished . "Hans Sachs," a drama; Jean Paul Richter's "Selina,'' " Jubel Senoir " and " ^sthetik," " The Last of the Tulifants," " The Life of Claus Harms,'' Grillparzer's drama " The Ancestress, " and books seven and eighteen of Riickert's •"Wisdom of the Brahmin," a great number of poems, etc., translated from the German, French, Latin, Greek and Italian. He died in Newport, R. I., June 14, 1883.

BROOKS, David, soldier, was born in 1756. After receiving a public-school education he entered the Continental army, in 1776, as a lieu- tenant in the Pennsylvania line. He was taken captive at Fort Washington, and after two years' imprisonment was exchanged. While holding the office of assistant clothier-general at army headquarters, to which he was promoted after his release in 1778, he won the friendship of General Washington. After the war he removed to Dutch- ess covmty, N. Y. He was elected to the state assembly from each district. lo. 1796 he was elected representative to the 5th Congress, and was subsequentlj- made a commissioner to arrange the first treaty with the Seneca Indians. He afterwards held the position of first judge of Dutchess county for sixteen years, and died Aug. 30, 1838.

BROOKS, Edward, educator, was born at Stony Point, on the Hudson, N. Y., Jan. 16, 1831. He received an academic education, and in 1846 went into his father's factory, where he remained for three years in order to learn something of bu.siness methods, continuing his studies in his spare time. In 1849 he taught first a singing and afterward a district school, and in the following year attended one session of the Liberty normal institute, and was graduated valedictorian of his class. He then entered the Univei-sity of North- ern Pennsylvania as an assistant teacher, with the opportunity of continuing his studies in higher mathematics and literature. Before the end of the year he was made tutor of the classes in higher mathematics, and in the following year was elected professor of the department. The next year he was placed in charge of the department of literature, and aideil in introduc- ing a new system of grammatical analysis.