he wrote a volume of parodies, published in 1816, as _The Poetic Mirror, or the Living Bards of Great Britain_. He took possession of his farm in 1817; but his literary exertions were never relaxed. Before 1820 he had written the prose tales of _The Brownie of Bodsbeck_ (1818) and two volumes of _Winter Evening Tales_ (1820), besides collecting, editing and writing part of two volumes of _The Jacobite Relics of Scotland_ (1819-1821), and contributing largely to _Blackwood's Magazine_. "The Chaldee MS.," which appeared in _Blackwood's Magazine_ (October 1817), and gave such offence that it was immediately withdrawn, was largely Hogg's work. In 1820 he married Margaret Phillips, a lady of a good Annandale family, and found himself possessed of about L1000, a good house and a well-stocked farm. Hogg's connexion with _Blackwood's Magazine_ kept him continually before the public; his contributions, which include the best of his prose works, were collected in the _Shepherd's Calendar_ (1829). The wit and mischief of some of his literary friends made free with his name as the "Shepherd" of the _Noctes Ambrosianae_, and represented him in ludicrous and grotesque aspects; but the effect of the whole was favourable to his popularity. "Whatever may be the merits of the picture of the Shepherd [in the _Noctes Ambrosianae_]--and no one will deny its power and genius," writes Professor Veitch--"it is true, all the same, that this Shepherd was not the Shepherd of Ettrick or the man James Hogg. He was neither a Socrates nor a Falstaff, neither to be credited with the wisdom and lofty idealizings of the one, nor with the characteristic humour and coarseness of the other." _The Three Perils of Woman_ (1820), and _The Three Perils of Man_ (1822), were followed in 1825 by an epic poem, _Queen Hynde_, which was unfavourably received. He visited London in 1832, and was much lionized. On his return a public dinner was given to him in Peebles,--Professor Wilson in the chair,--and he acknowledged that he had at last "found fame." His health, however, was seriously impaired. With his pen in his hand to the last, Hogg in 1834 published a volume of _Lay Sermons_, and _The Domestic Manners and Private Life of Sir Walter Scott_, a book which Lockhart regarded as an infringement on his rights. In 1835 appeared three volumes of _Tales of the Wars of Montrose_. Hogg died on the 21st of November 1835, and was buried in the churchyard of his native parish Ettrick. His fame had seemed to fill the whole district, and was brightest at its close; his presence was associated with all the border sports and festivities; and as a man James Hogg was ever frank, joyous and charitable. It is mainly as a great peasant poet that he lives in literature. Some of his lyrics and minor poems--his "Skylark," "When the Kye comes Hame," his verses on the "Comet" and "Evening Star," and his "Address to Lady Ann Scott"--are exquisite. _The Queen's Wake_ unites his characteristic excellences--his