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                                                                      Exhibit 24

                               POWER OF ATTORNEY
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     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned officers and
directors of Brookstone, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), hereby
constitute and appoint Michael F. Anthony and Philip Roizin and each of them
severally his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of
substitution, to execute in his name, place and stead, in his capacity as an
officer or director or both, as the case may be, of the Company, in the name and
on behalf of and for the benefit of the undersigned, any and all instruments
which the said attorneys or attorney may deem necessary or advisable to enable
the Company to comply with the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any
rules, regulations, and requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission
("SEC") in respect thereof in connection with the registration under said Act of
shares of its Common Stock, $.001 par value, to be offered by the Company under
its 1999 Equity Incentive Plan pursuant to its Registration Statement of Form S-
8, and specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the
power and authority to sign the name of the undersigned, in the capacity or
capacities indicated below, to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed or
to be filed with the SEC in respect to said shares, to any and all amendments
including the any post-effective amendments to the Registration Statements, and
to any and all instruments or documents necessary or incidental to or filed in
connection with the said Registration Statement or the said amendments thereto,
and to file the same with the SEC, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and
agents full power and authority to do and perform each of said acts and every
other act requisite, necessary, expedient or appropriate to be done in and about
or concerning the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as they might
or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-
in-fact and agents, or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause
to be done by virtue hereof in, about or concerning the premises or any part
thereof, and the execution of any documents by said attorneys or any of them
pursuant hereto shall be conclusive evidence that the instruments so executed
are authorized to be executed pursuant to this Power of Attorney.

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