His Shepherd s Calendar is the best of Hogg s prose works ; but it is mainly as a great peasant poet that he lives in literature. Nothing can be more exquisite than 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." The Queen s Wake unites his characteristic excellences his command of the old romantic ballad style, his graceful fairy mythology, and his aerial flights of imagination. The story of Kilmeny stands at the head of all our fairy tales, and is inimitable for its scenes of visionary splendour, purity, and bliss, linked to the fairest objects of earthly interest and affection. In such compositions Hogg seems completely transformed ; he is absorbed in the ideal and supernatural, and might have claimed over all his contemporaries the Delphic laurel for direct and immediate inspiration.
See a memoir by Professor Wilson, prefixed to an edition of Hogg s works published by Blackie & Co. in 1850; Wilson s Noct.cs Ambro- siancc ; Gilfillan s First Gallery of Literary Portraits ; Cunningham s Biog. and Grit. Hist, of Lit. ; and the general index to Blackv;ood s Magazine. A collected edition of Hogg s Talcs appeared in 1838 in 6 vols. , and a second in 1851 ; his collected Poems were published in 1850 and in 1852. For an admirable account of the social enter tainments Hogg used to give in Edinburgh, see Memoir of Robert Chambers, by Dr AVilliam Chambers, pp. 263-270.
HOHENELBE (Bohemian, Vrchlabi], the chief town of a government district in Bohemia, is beautifully situated on both banks of the Elbe, crossed there by five bridges, on the southern spurs of the Riesengebirge, and on the north-west Austrian railway, 16 miles north-east of Gitschin. The houses with lofty gables and arcades supported by wooden columns have a picturesque appearance ; and among the principal buildings are the decanal church, the castle surrounded by a fine park, the Augustine monastery, the citizen school, and the trade school. Linen and cotton are the staple manufactures, and there are also bleach- works, dye-works, and a paper-mill. A splendid view is obtained from the Heidelberg, which rises to the height of 3120 feet immediately behind the town. The population in 1869 was 5316.
HOHENLOHE, a German princely family, who took their name from the territory of Hohenlohe in Franconia, which, originally a countship and afterwards a principality, lost its independence in 1806, and is now included partly in Wiirtemberg and partly in Bavaria. They are first mentioned as possessing in the 12th century the castle of Holloch near Uffenheim. At an early period they extended their influence into several of the Franconian valleys, including those of the Kocher, the Jagst, the Tauber, and the Gotlach. The first count of the name was Gottfried, who was on terms of intimacy with the emperor Henry VI., and whose sons founded the lines of Hohenlohe-Bruneck and Hohenlohe-Holloch. The former became extinct in the fourth generation, and the latter in 1340 divided into the lines of Hohenlohe-Hohenlohe and Hohenlohe-Speckfeld. Of these the former became extinct in 1412, after the most of the possessions had been alienated through the marriage of the female heir ; and the latter in 1551 divided into the present lines of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein and Hohenlohe-Waldenburg, which were elevated, the former in 1764 and the latter in 1744, to principalities of the empire. Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, which adopted Protestantism, became divided into the lines Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Oehringen and Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Langenburg, the former of which separated into the branches of Hohenlohe-Weickersheim and Hohenlohe-Oehringen, the one becoming extinct in 1756 and the other in 1805, after which their possessions were inherited by the Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Langenburg line, which lattsr became divided into three branches the Hohenlohe-Langenburg, the Hohenlohe-Langeuburg-Oehringen, and the Hohenlohe-Langenburg-Kirchberg, the lust becoming extinct in 1861. The line of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg, which remained Catholic, and in which was established in 1754 the order of the Phoenix, divided itself into two branches, the Hohenlohe-Waldenburg- Bartenstein and the Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-SchillingsfiirsT, the former subdividing into the branches of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein and Hohenlohe-Jagstberg. Of the Hohenlohe family the following members are noted as having attained individual eminence.
I. Friedrich Ludwig (1746–1818), prince of Hohenlohe- Ingelfingen, a Prussian general, was born 31st January 1746. Entering the Prussian service at an early age he became colonel in 1788, and in the campaigns of 1792 and 1793, where he was commander of a division, he distin guished himself in several engagements. In 1794 he gained a brilliant victory at Kuiserslautern, and in 1796 he was promoted lieutenant-general and appointed to the command of the army of the Ems. In the same year he succeeded to the principality of his father. Having been appointed general of infantry in 1800, he in 1805 commanded a Prussian corps between the Saale and the Thuringian Forest. He was severely defeated at Jena in 1806, and after the duke of Brunswick was mortally wounded at Auerstaclt, he succeeded to the chief command, and led to the Oder the frag ments of the Prussian army which capitulated at Prenzlau on the 28th October. On account of the blame to which this disaster exposed him, he had to retire from the army. He died at Slawentzitz, Silesia, 15th February 1818.
II. Ludwig Aloysius (1765–1629), prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein, marshal and peer of France, was born 18th August 1765. In 1784 he entered the service of the palatinate, which he quitted in 1792 in order to take the command of a regiment raised by his father for the service of the emigrant princes of France, He greatly distinguished himself under Prince Conde in the campaigns of 1792-1793, especially at the storming of the lines of Weissenbui-g. Subsequently he entered the service of Holland, and, when almost surrounded by the army of General Pichegru, conducted a masterly retreat from the island of Bommnel. From 1794 to 1799 he served as colonel in the Austrian campaigns; in 1799 he was named major-general by the archduke Charles; and after obtaining the rank of lieutenant-general he was appointed by the em peror of Austria governor of the two Galicias. Napoleon offered to restore to him his principality on condition that he adhered to the confederation of the Rhine, but as he refused, it was united to Wiirtemberg. After Napoleon s fall in 1814 he entered the French service, and in 1815 he held the command of a regiment raised by himself, with which he took part in the Spanish campaign of 1823. In 1827 he was created marshal and peer of France. He died at Lune^ille, May 30, 1829.
