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The Queen's Wake, 1813, a 

 series of ballads supposed to have 

 been recited before Mary Queen of 

 Scots at a competition of Scottish 

 bards, was the first work to bring 

 Hogg something more than a local 

 reputation. The Queen's Wake is a 

 work of real merit, with a strong 

 vein of impressive if somewhat 

 fantastic imagination. The latter 

 half of Hogg's life r . 

 was spent partly in j 

 Edinburgh and 

 partly at Altrive in 

 Yarrow .on a farm 

 of which the duke 

 of Buccleuch gave 

 him a life lease, 

 and where he died 

 Nov. 21, 1835. 

 Hogg was a prolific 

 writer both in verse 

 and in prose. 

 Among his best 

 known poems are 

 The Poetic Mirror, 

 Bonny Kilmeny, 

 and some fine lyrics 

 such as To the Skylark, When the 

 Kye comes Hame, and Cam' ye 

 by Atholl ? See Memorials of James 

 Hogg, M. G. Garden, 1903. 



Hogg, QUINTIN (1845-1903). 

 British philanthropist. The four- 

 teenth child of Sir James Weir 

 Hogg, and 

 brother of Sir 

 James Me - 

 Naghten Mc- 

 Garel Hogg, 

 who became 

 1st Baron Mag- 

 heramorne, he 

 was born in 

 London, Feb. 

 14, 1845, and 

 educated at 



of a direct Trans-Sahara Rly., merely a yard where parts of ships, 

 which will have to turn them to the fabricated! at about 100 inland 



E. or W. To the N.W. is In-Salah, 

 occupied by the French on Dec. 28, 

 1899, through or near which the 

 Trans-Sahara Rly. will pass. 



Hoghton. Village of Lanca- 

 shire, England. It lies between 

 Preston and Blackburn, on the 

 L. & Y. Rly., and is notable for 



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British philanthropist 



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Eton. In 1882 he purchased the 

 lease of the Royal Polytechnic In- 

 stitution, Regent Street. He 

 opened it on Sept. 25 as a suc- 

 cessor to an earlier Youths' Chris- 

 tian Institute, his object being to 

 provide young men with in- 

 struction, recreation, and social 

 intercourse. Hogg died at the Poly- 

 technic, Jan. 17, 1903. See Poly- 

 technic : consult also Life, E. M. 

 Hogg, 1904. His eldest son, Sir 

 Douglas McGarel Hogg was born 

 Feb. 28.. 1872. He was called to 

 the Bar in 1902, after which he 

 became leading counsel in many 

 law cases. He was elected con- 

 servative M.P. for St. Mary le bone 

 in 1922 and at subsequent elections, 

 and from Oct. 1922 to Jan. 1924 

 was attorney-general, taking this 

 offioe again in Nov. 1924. . He was 

 knighted, 1922. 



Hoggar OR AHAGGAR. Moun- 

 tainous district in the Sahara, S. of 

 Algeria. The mountains form an 

 impassable barrier across the route 



Hoghton, Lancashire. Courtyard of Hoghton Tower 



the seat of the De Hoghton family, 

 Hoghton Tower, originally built in 

 1565. On his visit here in 1617 

 James I is said by popular tradi- 

 tion to have "knighted" the loin 

 of beef (sirloin). 



Hog Island. Island in the 

 Delaware river off the city of 

 Philadelphia, U.S.A., of which it 

 forms a part. The conversion of its 

 946 acres, mainly swamp, into a 

 shipyard during the Great War 

 broke all engineering records for 

 speed, and was an important con- 

 tribution of the U.S.A. to the fight 

 against U-boat piracy. 



The U.S. Shipping Board on 

 Sept. 13, 1917, authorised the In- 

 ternational Shipbuilding Corpora- 



plants, might be assembled. Fifty 

 slipways, stretching for 1 J m. along 

 the river front, and 7 fitting-out 

 piers, each 1,000 ft. long with enough 

 water alongside to float vessels of 

 28 ft. draught, were constructed. 



To serve the slipways 82 miles of 

 railway track were laid and 470 

 cranes were erected on towers, 

 into which 6,000 tons of steel had 

 been built. 140,000 piles had to 

 be driven in the course of the 

 work, and 3 m. of dykes were 

 thrown up to serve as an im- 

 pounding basin for the deposit of 

 the dredgings. Twenty -seven ware- 

 houses with a floor area of 

 1,700,000 sq. ft. were built, and 

 accommodation had to be provided 

 for the 33,000 men employed. 

 The cost of the yard, which had 

 been estimated at 21,000,000 dols., 

 worked out at over 60,000,000 dols. 

 Hogland OR HOCHLAND. Island 

 of Finland. It is in the govt. of 

 Viborg, in the Gulf of Finland, 

 and was at one time joined to the 

 mainland. It is known for a 

 vibrating rock, which produces the 

 sounds of an organ. 



Hogmanay OR CAKE DAY. 

 Name used in Scotland and the 

 N. of England for New Year's Eve, 

 and the gifts then bestowed. 

 Among hogmanay customs are the 

 exchanging of presents between 

 friends, the giving of oatcakes to 

 children to the cry of " hogmanay," 

 and the singing and acting of the 

 guisers or masquers. In London, 

 Scotsmen celebrate hogmanay 

 night in S. Paul's Churchyard. 

 Though first recorded in Scotland 

 in the 17th century the word, vari- 

 ously spelt hogmena, hogmenay, 

 hagman heigh, is 

 . probably of early 

 ' French origin, and 

 a corruption of the 

 old Fr. aguitlan- 

 neuf, explained as 

 " to the mistletoe 

 the new year " 

 (nu gui /'an neuf), 

 a term of rejoicing 

 derived from the 

 Druids 



tion to construct 

 at Hog Island a 

 shipyard and 50 

 vessels of 7,500 

 tons. Work began 

 on Oct. 1, 1917, 

 and the first ship, 

 the Questconck, 

 was launched 

 Aug. 5, 1918. Hog 

 Island was de- 

 signed to be 



Hog Island, U.S.A. Shipbuilding wharves at the launch 



of the Questconck, Aug., 1918. Above, virgin land of 



the island as it had appeared ten months earlier 



