command of the old romantic ballad style, his graceful fairy mythology and his aerial flights of imagination. In the fairy story of Kilmeny in this work Hogg seems completely transformed; he is absorbed in the ideal and supernatural, and writes under direct and immediate inspiration. See Hogg's "Memoir of the Author's Life, written by himself," prefixed to the 3rd edition (1821) of _The Mountain Bard_, also _Memorials of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd_, edited by his daughter, Mrs M. G. Garden (enlarged edition with preface by Professor Veitch, 1903), and Sir G. B. S. Douglas, _James Hogg_ (1899) in the "Famous Scots" series; also _The Poems of James Hogg_, selected by William Wallace (1903). John Wilson ("Christopher North") had a real affection for Hogg, but for some reason or other made no use of the materials placed in his hands for a biography of the poet. The memoir mentioned on the title-page of the _Works_ (1838-1840) never appeared, and the memoir prefixed to the edition of Hogg's works published by Blackie & Co. (1865) was written by the Rev. Thomas Thompson. See also Wilson's _Noctes Ambrosianae_; Mrs Oliphant's _Annals of a Publishing House_, vol. i. chap. vii.; Gilfillan's _First Gallery of Literary Portraits_; Cunningham's _Biog. and Crit. Hist. of Lit._; and the general index to _Blackwood's Magazine_. A collected edition of Hogg's Tales appeared in 1837 in 6 vols., and a second in 1851; his _Poetical Works_ were published in 1822, 1838-1840 and 1865-1866. For an admirable account of the social entertainments Hogg used to give in Edinburgh, see _Memoir of Robert Chambers_ (1874), by Dr William Chambers, pp. 263-270. HOGG, THOMAS JEFFERSON (1792-1862), English man of letters, was born at Norton, Durham, on the 24th of May 1792. He was educated at Durham grammar school and at University College, Oxford. Here he became the intimate friend of the poet Shelley, with whom in 1811 he was expelled from the university for refusing to disclaim connexion with the authorship of the pamphlet _The Necessity for Atheism_. He was then sent to study law at York, where he remained for six months. Hogg's behaviour to Harriet Shelley interrupted his relations with her husband for some time, but in 1813 the friendship was renewed in London. In 1817 Hogg was called to the bar, and became later a revising barrister. In 1844 he inherited L2000 under Shelley's will, and in 1855, in accordance with the wishes of the poet's family, began to write Shelley's biography. The first two volumes of it were published in 1858, but they proved to be far more an autobiography than a biography, and Shelley's representatives refused Hogg further access to the materials necessary for its completion. Hogg died on the 27th of August 1862.