HOGG, JAMES Scottish poet, known as "the Ettrick shepherd," was baptized at Ettrick, Selkirkshire, on Dec. 9, 177o. His ancestors had been shepherds for generations, and he himself was a shepherd from 1790 to 1799 at Yarrow to Mr. Laidlaw, who lent him books and encouraged his talent. On the recommendation of Sir Walter Scott, Constable published his mis cellaneous poems (The Mountain Bard) in 1807. The proceeds of this book and of another on the treatment of sheep were in vested by Hogg in a ruinous farming enterprise in Dumfrieshire, and the poet went to Edinburgh to make his living by writ ing. In 1817 he was provided by the duke of Buccleuch with a small farm at Altrive, Yarrow, and in 182o he married Margaret Phillips. He died on Nov. 21, 1835, and was buried at his native place. Hogg is familiar to many readers as the "Shepherd" of Wilson's Noctes Ambrosianae, though the picture is no literal portrait. Hogg's most important volumes are : Scottish Pastorals (18o1), The Mountain Bard (1807), The Queen's Wake (1813), Evening Tales (182o), The Shepherd's Calendar (1829) and Lay Sermons See Hogg's "Memoir of the Author's Life, written by himself," prefixed to the 3rd ed. (1821) of The Mountain Bard; also Memorials of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, ed. by his daughter, Mrs. M. G. Garden (enlarged ed. with preface by Prof. Veitch, 1903), and Sir G. B. S. Douglas; James Hogg in the "Famous Scots" series (1899) ; also The Poems of James Hogg, selected by William Wallace (19o3) . See also Mrs. Oliphant, Annals of a Publishing House, vol. i. chap. vii., and G. Gilfillan, First Gallery of Literary Portraits.