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Modern Thoracentesis and Thoracotomy: a Paper prepared for Pepper's 

 "System of Medicine," and from which Dr. Donaldson has made Co- 

 pious extracts in the preparation of his Article on " Affections of the 

 Pleura," now to be found in the above work by Dr. Pepper. 



Ambroise Pare. Has the Boston Society for Medical Improvement an 

 authentic Portrait of this great Surgeon ? 



The Past, Present, and Future Treatment of Homoeopathy. An Addi 

 June 10, 18S6, before the Rhode Island Medical Society. Reprinted 

 from the Transactions of the Society. 



Open Air Travel as a Curer and Preventive of Consumption, as seen in 

 the History of a New England Family. Reprinted from the Transac- 

 tions of the American Climatological Association. 



1893. Ciiakles F. Folsom. 



PHILLIPS BROOKS. 



Descended on his mother's side from a long line of New England 

 worthies, many of them ministers of the Gospel, Phillips Brooks 

 was, by virtue of heredity, a scholar and a thinker. The Boston 

 Latin School fitted him for college, Harvard graduated him with hon- 

 ors in 1855, and the Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Virginia, 

 subsequently gave him his training in divinity. After a brief pas- 

 torate at the Church of the Advent in Philadelphia, he was placed 

 over the important parish of Holy Trinity in the same city. Here 

 he became famous as a preacher, and when, in 18G8, he accepted 

 an iuvitation to Trinity Church, Boston, his reputation was already 

 a national one. Scarcely had he become wonted to his new cure, 

 when the church in which his pulpit stood was burned to the ground, — 

 a calamity which could scarcely be reckoned wholly such, since it 

 resulted in giving to one of the best architects the country has ever 

 had the opportunity of his lifetime, and to the foremost of contem- 

 porary preachers the scope and play to which his extraordinary 

 powers entitled him. 



After having held his Boston rectorship with ever increasing accept- 

 ance for more than twenty years, Dr. Brooks became, in 1891, Bishop 

 of the Diocese of Massachusetts, but had continued in office Bcarcely 

 a twelvemonth when he died. Upon the characteristics of Phillips 

 Brooks as preacher and pastor, the writer of this notice would have 

 no occasion to dwell, even if estimates of the man and his work were 

 less numerous than they are. Perhaps in the case of no oilier Ameri- 

 can, unless indeed that of some military or political favorite, has the 



