LOGAN, JOHN. 



LOKMAN. 



and Seneca ('The Work* of Josephus,' fol., Lend., 1602; 'Seneca's 

 Works, both Moral and Natural,' foL, Lend., 1614) ; ho wrote several 

 novels, volumes of vanes, and miscellaneous pamphlets ; and he was 

 distinguished contributor to the drama in the years immediately 

 preceding the appearance of Shakspere. His extant dramatic works 

 are two : 1. 'The Wounds of Cifil War, lively set forth iu the True 

 Tragtdirs of Marias and Sylla,' 4to, 1594, reprinted in the last edition 

 of Dodsley's ' Old Plays,' vol. viii. ; a stately historical play, with 

 some eloquence, much action, and little interest either of character or 

 incident 2. 'A Look lug-Glass for London and Englande, made by 

 Thomas Lodge, Gent, sod Kobert Greene, in Artibus Mapister,' 4to, 

 1594, 159S, 1602, 1617; a whimsical but animated dramatic picture, 

 alluded to alreidy in our notice of Greene. [GBEESE, ROBERT.] But 

 Lodge's own exertions as a dramatist, although they entitle his name 

 to a place beside those of Greene and Peele, are less interesting to us 

 than the assistance which one of his works furnished to a greater than 

 himself. One of his novels is entitled ' Rosalynde : Euphues Golden 

 Legacie ; found after his death in his cell at Silexedra. Bequeathed 

 to Philantus Sonnes, nouned up with their Father in England. Fetcht 

 from the Canaries;' 4to, 1590, 1592, 1620, 1623, 1642, Ac. ; reprinted 

 in Mr. Collier's ' Shakespeare's Library,' 1840. From this novel 

 Shakspere borrowed closely the leading incidents (indeed many also 

 of the minor ones), the grouping of the characters, and many of the 

 strokes of portraiture, for his ' Aa You Like It.' While a perusal of 

 the novel cannot diminish our admiration of the play, it is yet an 

 agreeable duty. In the midst of much that is unskilful, somewhat 

 that is dull, and a good deal in the bad taste of Lyly's Euphues, the 

 novel is yet interesting, lively on the whole, and in many places finely 

 poetical, both iu its prose descriptions and narratives, and in the 

 interspersed verses. 



LOGAN, JOHN, was born at Fala, in the county of Edinburgh, in 

 1748. He was the son of a small farmer, and, being destined to the 

 clerical profession, was educated in the University of Edinburgh ; 

 after which he became tutor to Sir John Sinclair. In 1773, almost 

 immediately ou being licensed as a preacher in the Established Church 

 of Scotland, he was appointed to be one of the ministers of the town 

 of Leith. In 1770 he bad edited the posthumous poems of his friend 

 Michael Bruce, incorporating with them some pieces which he claimed 

 (and probably justly) as his own, and among which was the well- 

 known ' Ode to the Cuckoo.' His poetical talents were further shown 

 by several pieces of sacred poetry, some of which are inserted in the 

 collection of hymns and paraphrases of Scripture annexed to the 

 psalmody of the Scottish Church. In 1779, patronised by Blair, 

 Robertson, and other literary men, he delivered in Edinburgh a course 

 of lectures on the 'Philosophy of History;' the reputation of which 

 justified him next year in aspiring, though unsuccessfully, to the pro- 

 fessorship of Universal History iu the university. Outlines of a part 

 of his lectures were published under the title of ' Elements of the 

 Philosophy of History, Part I.,' 1781. In the same year appeared his 

 'Dissertation on the Government, Manners, and Spirit of Asia;' and 

 a volume of poems, which reached a second edition before the year 

 was closed. 



Logon, if not a learned divine, or a very profound thinker, was a 

 man of much eloquence, and a highly popular preacher. But his 

 poetical endowments, strongly lyrical in their tendency, were the 

 highest he possessed; and unfortunately he was tempted to apply 

 these in a path where he was ill calculated to shine, and the adoption 

 of which proved fatal not only to his professional usefulness, but to 

 his happiness. In 1783 he printed and caused to be acted iu Edinburgh 

 a tragedy called ' Runnamede,' which had been rehearsed at Coveut 

 Garden, lut refused a licence by the Lord Chamberlain. This publi- 

 cation brought on him the anger of his Presbyterian associates; and 

 these and other annoyances, aggravated by an hereditary tendency to 

 hypochondria, drove him to intoxication for relief. In 1785 he quitted 

 his parochial charge, and repaired to London. There, retaining by 

 agreement a part of his clerical income, he eked out his livelihood by 

 literary labour, writing papers for the ' English Review,' and publishing 

 in 1788 two works. The one was 'A Review of the principal Charges 

 against Mr. Hastings,' which brought on Mr. Stockdale, the publisher, 

 a prosecution for breach of privilege ; the other was a useful summary 

 entitled 'A View of Ancient History,' including 'The Progress of 

 Literature and the Fine Arts, by William Rutherford, D.D., Master of 

 the Academy at Uxbridge,' 2 vols. 8vo. He died in London on the 

 28th of December, 1788. His friends, Drs. Blair, Robertson, and 

 Hardy, published a volume of his sermons in 1790, and a second in 

 1791. These sermons long enjoyed very great popularity, and have 

 been several times reprinted. They are among the most eloquent that 

 the Scottish Church has produced. A third edition of his poems, with 

 an account of his life, appeared in 1805 ; and the poems are included 

 in Dr. Anderson's collection. 



LOGOAN, DAVID, a line-engraver and designer of considerable 

 eminence, was born at Danzig iu 1635. He appears to have first 

 learnt his art from Simon de Pas in Denmark, and to have worked 

 subsequently with Hondius in Holland. He came to England during 

 the Commonwealth, and spent tome time in engraving heads in 

 London. But his first work of consequence in this country was a set 

 of plates of the colleges of Oxford 'Oxonia Illustrata,' for the sale 

 of which he had fifteen years' privilege ; he executed afterwards a 



similar series of the colleges of Cambridge. He also engraved on 

 eleven folio plates 'Habitus Academicorum Oxonia) a Dootore ad 

 Servientem.' Loggan is himself entered on the books of the Uni- 

 versity ; in the matriculation registry there is the following entry 

 " David Loggan Gedanensis, Uuiversitate Oxou. Chalcographus, 

 July 9, 1672." 



He married Mrs. Jordan, of a good family, near Witney, Oxford- 

 shire, by whom he had a son, who became a fellow of Magdalen 

 College, Oxford. He died at his house in Leicester-fields in 1693. 



Loggan engraved many portraits of illustrious persons in the time 

 of Charles II., many of the drawings of which were executed in lead 

 by himself from the life as George, Prince of Denmark; the Duke 

 of Albemarle ; the Karl of Clarendon ; the Earl of Argyll ; the Duke 

 of Ormond ; the Lord Keeper Guildford ; Archbishop Saucroft ; the 

 Bishops Mew, Seth Ward, and Pearson; and many others. There 

 are prints also by Loggan of Archbishops Usher and Boyle, and of 

 Bishops Sprat of Rochester, Lake of Chichester, Crew of Durham, 

 Compton of London, Gunning of Ely, Reynolds of Norwich, and 

 Lloyd of St Asaph. He engraved also three portraits of Charles II., 

 in one of which the king is leaning his bond on Archbishop Sheldon ; 

 James, duke of York ; the Duke of Monmouth ; the Queens Catherine 

 and Henrietta Maria; Pope Innocent XL; the Earl of Derby, Sir 

 Edward Coke, Sir John Chordin, Thomas JJarlow, Titus Gates, and 

 many others, which arc enumerated by Vertue. 



Loggan had the following assistants A. Blooteling, G. Valck, 

 Vauderbanck, and Peter Williamson ; the first two came from Holland 

 with Loggan. 



LOIR, NICOLAS, a distinguished French painter and etcher, was 

 born at Paris in 1624. His father was an eminent jeweller, and he 

 placed Nicolas with Sebastien Bourdon, and sent him afterwards, in 

 1647, to complete his studies in Rome. Here Loir studied chiefly 

 the works of N. Poussin, and so carefully, that in some instances it 

 is said to be scarcely possible to distinguish Loir's copies from the 

 originals. He had great facility of execution, and excelled in various 

 styles, as history, landscape, and architecture. He also composed 

 with elegance, and his colouring is agreeable; but his design is 

 somewhat affected, aud is not always vigorous or correct in its outline. 

 He paiuted at Rome an excellent picture of 'Darius opening the 

 Tomb of Semiramis,' which obtained him a great reputation. He 

 returned to Paris in 1649, and was shortly afterwards employed by 

 Louis XIV., at the Tuileries and at Versailles. He painted two 

 apartments in the Tuileries the Antichambre du Roy and the 

 Salles des Garde.?, where, by the mythical representation of the sun 

 and other figures, he illustrated the distinctive character of the life 

 and reign of Louis XIV. ; and so far to the monarch's satisfaction, 

 that he obtained by these works a life-pension of 4000 francs. 



In 1663 he was elected a member of the French Academy of 

 Painting, and he presented on the occasion, as his receptiou-piece, a 

 picture representing the 'Progress of Paiuting and Sculpture during 

 the reign of Louis XIV. ; ' but his masterpiece is considered to be 

 ' Cleobis and Biton drawing their Mother iu a chariot to the temple 

 of Juno,' from the story of Herodotus (i. 31) ; Loir himself has made 

 an etching of it. Another of his best works is ' Elymos the Sorcerer 

 struck with Blindness,' in the cathedral of Notre Darne at Paris. He 

 excelled in painting women and children, and particularly the Virgin 

 Mary. He is said to have designed twelve Holy Families iu a single 

 day, which did not contain two figures alike. He died at Paris, 

 rector of the Academy, in 1679. Loir's own etchiug.s amount to 159 

 pieces, which, together with 80 engravings after his works by other 

 artists, make a total of 239 prints. Several of the latter wore 

 engraved by his brother Alexis Loir. 



Felibieu describes several of the works of Loir at considerable 

 length. Felibien and Loir were at Rome together, and Felibieu's 

 dates have been for this reason adopted iu this article, where they 

 differ from those of D'Argenville and Gault DC Saint-Germain. 



(Felibien, Entreticns eur lea Vies et sur lea Outrages des Peinlres, etc. ; 

 D'Argenville, Abrigf de la Vie deiplits fameux Peintres, <tc.) 



LOKMAN is represented iu the Korau and by later Arabian 

 tradition as a celebrated philosopher, contemporary with David and 

 Solomon, with whom he is said to have frequently conversed. He 

 was, we are told, an Arabian of the ancient tribe of Ad, or, according 

 to another account, the king or chief of that tribe, aud when his tribe 

 perished by the Seil-ol-Arim he was preserved on account of his 

 wisdom and piety. Other accounts, drawn mostly from Pcr.-ian 

 authorities, state that Lokrnuu was an Abyssinian slave, and noted 

 for his personal deformity and ugliness, as for his wit and a peculiar 

 talent for composing moral fictions and short apologues. Ho was 

 considered to be the author of the well-known collection of fables in 

 Arabic, which still exist under his name. There is some reason to 

 suppoie that Lokman and Msop were the same individual. This 

 supposition is founded on the close correspondence of the traditional 

 accounts of the person, character, and life of Lokman with those of 

 Maximus Plauudes respecting ^Ksop. [^Esorus, voL L, p. 51.] Even 

 the name of Lokman may, by a slight transposition, be derived from 

 the Greek Alktuan. If Lokman is not altogether a fictitious person, 

 bis history seems to have been mixed up with that of .(Esop. The 

 monk of Constantinople probably engrafted many incidents of his life 

 on the few circumstances recorded by the classic writers respecting 



