=Brooks, Elbridge Streeter.= _Ms._, 1846-1902. A Boston writer for young people. Life Work of Elbridge Gerry Brooks; In No Man’s Land; Historic Boys; In Leisler’s Times; Chivalric Days; Storied Holidays; Historic Girls; Story of the American Indian; The Story of New York; Story of the American Sailor; Story of the United States; The True Story of Columbus; Heroic Happenings; A Son of Issachar; The True Story of George Washington; The Century Book for Young Americans; A Boy of the First Empire; Great Men’s Sons; The Story of Miriam of Magdala; The True Story of Abraham Lincoln; The Story of the American Soldier; The Century Book of Famous Americans; Under the Tamaracks; The Long Walls (with J. Alden). _Cent. Lo. Put._ =Brooks, Mrs. Maria [Gowen].= _Ms._, 1795-1845. Called by Southey “Maria del Occidente.” A poet whose fate it has been to be utterly neglected after being once extravagantly praised. Zephiel, or The Bride of Seven, her chief work, is a poem whose incidents are taken from the story of Sara in the apocryphal book of Tobit. It is a work of considerable power but extravagant sentiment. Idomen, or the Vale of Yumuri, is to some extent autobiographic. _See Griswold’s Female Poets; Harper’s Magazine, January and May, 1879; Mrs. Hale’s Woman’s Record._ =Brooks, Nathan Covington.= _Md._, 1819-1898. A prominent educator of Baltimore, who besides publishing an excellent series of classical text-books, chief among which are editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Virgil’s Æneid, is the author of A Complete History of the Mexican War. =Brooks, Noah.= _Me._, 1830-1903. A New York writer of popular books for boys. The Boy Emigrants; The Fairport Nine; Our Baseball Club; Abraham Lincoln; The Boy Settlers; American Statesmen; Tales of the Maine Coast; Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery; How the Republic is Governed; Short Studies in American Party Politics; Washington in Lincoln’s Time, a volume of gossipy recollections; The Mediterranean Trip. _Cent. Scr._