78 MEMORIAL MEETING ; 



moved that the President and Mr. Willson be a committee 

 to prepare appropriate resolutions on the death of Mr. 

 Brooks, also to arrange to hold at some later day, a more 

 formal and an appropriate memorial Service under the 

 auspices of the Institute. The motion was unanimously 

 adopted. 



Mr. Albert G. Browne and Dr. George A. Perkins 

 remarked on the kindly and genial disposition and spirit of 

 Mr. Brooks, and gave some personal reminiscences of 

 his life. Dr. Perkins said that they had been life-long 

 acquaintances and were in early years schoolmates, and 

 the friendship had never waned. In the year 1834 he 

 made a journey on foot to the White mountains with Mr. 

 Brooks. This jaunt was always pleasantly remembered 

 by both of them, and was alluded to in their frequent 

 meetings, and it had been the expressed Intention of both 

 Mr. Brooks and himself, that, if they lived, the fiftieth 

 anniversary of that excursion should be passed by them 

 on the top of Mt. Washington. 



Mr. Eobert S. Rantoul spoke of the literary char- 

 acter of the deceased and dwelt especially on his remark- 

 able facility and genius in his translation of German 

 poetry. He said : 



In the death of Charles T. Brooks we have lost another 

 of those sons of Essex County who have made a place for 

 themselves in American letters. I never heard Mr. 

 Brooks preach, and my estimate of his mental qualities is 

 made up from sources quite apart from his efforts in the 

 pulpit. I know him, as most of us have known him, 

 through his occasional verses, through his translations, 

 through his sunny face and his cordial greeting. He was 

 successful as atranslator. He had that fineness of apprecia- 

 tion, — delicacy of touch andfibre, — faculty for giving him- 



