HOGG, J AMES, a Scottish poet, was born in the district known as the forest of FA tnick, in Selkirkshire, in 1772, and was at school for two or three winters before he reached the age of eight. At that early age he entered upon the occupation of shepherd. His first song appeared anonymously in 1801, and having gone shortly after to sell his employer's sheep in Edinburgh, he threw off 1000 copies of verses which he had written. In the same summer, Scott visited the Ettrick forest in search of materials for his Border Min strelsy, when Hogg made his acquaintance, and placed in his possession a number of bal lads, taken down from the recitation of persons resident in the district, which appeared in the third volume of the Minstrelsy, in 1803. In the same year, he published The Mountain Bard, the proceeds of which, together with two prizes for essays he received from the Highland society, amounted to L'300. With this sum he took a farm, which proved a disastrous speculation. In 1810 lie began a course of regular authorship. In 1813 his poem The Queen's Wake appeared. In 1814 he married; and although lie after wards went to live on a farm given to him by the duke of Bucelsuch, lie busied himself more with books and booksellers than with sheep and grazing. His pen was profitable, which was more than he could bring his farm to be. He died at Altrive, on Nov. 21, 1835. His works are numerous, comprising, in addition to those already mentioned, Madoc of the Moor; The Pilgrims of the Sun; The Jacobite Relics of Scotland; Queen Ilynde; The Border Garland; and sonic songs of great beauty. He also wrote extensively in
prose. His prose works are—The Brownie of Bodsbeck; Winter Evening Tales; The Three Perils of Man; The Three Perils of Woman; The Altrice Tales; a volume of Lay Sermons, and a _We of Sir Walter Scott.
. After Burns, Hogg is unquestionably the greatest peasant-poet which Scotland has produced. His finest work, both in conception and finish, is The Queen's Wake. The general flow of the poem is lively and harmonious, while in one portion, that of "Kil meny," the reader.seems to hear " the horns of Elf:land faintly blowing;" and in another, "The Witch of Fife," lie is introduced into the weirdest; witch; and wizard world. His prose works are very unequal, but they occasionally display great humor, and always abound in graphic description.
the name given in the West Indies to a resinous substance, which is there extensively used as a substitute for pitch, to tar boats and ropes, also for strenathening plasters, etc., and internally as a diuretic, laxative, and stimulant medicine. It is still disputed what tree produces the true hog-gum; some ascribing it to moronobea coceinea, of the natural order guttifenr • some to rhos metopium, a species of sumach, of the order anacardiacece; and sonic to he lzeigia balsamifera, of the order amyridacece. The probabil ity seems to be that all these—and perhaps other—trees yield resinous substances of very similar quality, and commonly designated by the same name.