BROOKES, BARTHOLOMÆUS HEINRICH, a learned and amiable German poet and lawyer, was born at Lubeck in 1680. On leaving college he settled at Hamburg, where he practised as a lawyer with such distinguished success, that he was made a senator, and afterwards an aulic counselor, with the title of Count Palatine. After a useful and laborious life he died in 1747. His most ambitious work is his Earthly Contentment in God, a collection of moral poems still highly esteemed in Germany. His translations from foreign poets are very numerous. Among these may be specified his version of Pope's Essay on Man, and his translations from Marini and other Italian poets.