published but not to be acted, he returned to Ireland in 1740, and there ended his days. For eight years he practised as chamber counsel in Dublin, with some success; was rewarded by the liberal Lord Chesterfield with the sinecure office of barrack-master at Mullingar, but eventually took up his abode at Longfield, in the county Cavan, where he built a house, and devoted himself to improving the state of the peasantry around him. But he was too literary and speculative to prosper as an improving country gentleman. In water-power and drainage he sank a great deal of money. He drained a lake, and gained a bog instead -a process which, however diverting in experiment, was ruinous in result. His pen was ever his recreation and chosen employment. In 1747 he wrote four poems for Moore's Fables for the Female Sex, one at least of which, The Sparrow and the Dove, is a beautiful reflection of his own wedded life; his nobility of soul shows itself ever most nobly when he speaks of women. In 1749 he was solicited by a large body of independent electors in Dublin to allow himself to be put in nomination as member of Parliament for that city, but he declined on the plea of the superior suitableness of his opponent, who was acquainted with the interests of trade. Garrick offered him a shilling a line for everything he would write for the stage-no ordinary remuneration at that day-but he would not let out his brains to hire. Meanwhile he grew old in his seclusion, his children dying early around him, and drying up the springs of happiness in his loving heart. He was so tender-hearted that his wife was afraid to tell him of the death of even the cottagers that lived near his estate. That loved and lovely wife died 1772, only two of his children then living, a son in the army and Miss Charlotte Brooke, the only surviving daughter. With this daughter he retired to Dublin, and died there in 1783, leaving her also to pursue a career as an author, being the first translator into English verse of some Irish songs and ballads. The work by which Henry Brooke is best known is his Fool of Quality, published in five separate volumes in 1766-70. It is a beautiful story pervaded by the highest moral, but perhaps too pure and simple for the jaded palates of this generation. We would hope not. Nature is ever young; and there is a period in every human being's life when he prefers milk to strong meat. In this story we have the whole ideal and real Brooke; the education of a young nobleman by as noble a merchant-prince, exhibiting with a most marvellous variety of most entertaining incident, adventure, and episode, the training, moral and physical, of a Christian gentleman. 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