X OBITUARY NOTICES OF MEMBERS DECEASED. 



not easily moved from a position he had once taken. He was a 

 man of wide culture; he loved the best literature, music and art. 

 When I last saw him at his home we spent the entire evening until 

 after midnight playing, on his automatic piano, great compositions 

 of Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner and other masters of harmony. 



In his home life he was most happy and devoted. He married 

 in June, 1878, Amelia Schultz, of Baltimore, by whom he had two 

 children, Chas. E. Brooks, Ph.D., of Elizabeth, N. J., and Menetta 

 W. Brooks, A.B., who, after the death of Mrs. Brooks in 1901, took 

 charge of his home. 



Professor Brooks once told me that he proposed to retire from 

 his professorship when he had reached the age of sixty and there- 

 after devote himself entirely to philosophical and scientific work. 

 He reached the age of sixty last March, but how different was his 

 realization from his plan. His retirement was not to the scholarly 

 leisure for which he longed, but to pain, weakness and mortal 

 sickness. For nine months he struggled against a complication of 

 organic heart trouble and kidney disease and at sunrise on Thurs- 

 day, November twelfth, he breathed his last. 



In his death this society has lost a worthy and devoted member, 

 the world of scholars a man of rare ability and accomplishments, 

 and his friends and associates a noble and lovable companion. 

 Peace to his ashes, honor and reverence to his memory! 



Edwin G. Conklin. 



Princeton University. 



