LODGE, THOMAS (1558?-1625).—­Poet and dramatist, s. of Sir Thomas L., Lord Mayor of London, was ed. at Merchant Taylor’s School and Oxf.  He was a student of Lincoln’s Inn, but abandoned law for literature, ultimately studied medicine, and took M.D. at Oxf. 1603; having become a Roman Catholic, he had a large practice, chiefly among his co-religionists.  In 1580 he pub. A Defence of Plays in reply to Gosson’s School of Abuse; and he wrote poems, dramas, and romances.  His principal dramatic works are The Wounds of Civil War, and (in conjunction with Greene, q.v.) A Looking-glass for London and England.  Among his romances may be mentioned Euphues’ Shadow, Forbonius and Prisceria (1584), and Rosalynde, Euphues’ Golden Legacie (1590).  His poems include Glaucus and Scilia (1589), Phillis honoured with Pastoral Sonnets, Elegies, and Amorous Delights (1593). Rosalynde, his best known work, and the source from which Shakespeare is said to have drawn As you like It, was written to beguile the tedium of a voyage to the Canaries. Robin the Divell and William Longbeard are historical romances.  L. was also a voluminous translator.  He was one of the founders of the regular English drama, but his own plays are heavy and tedious.  His romances, popular in their day, are sentimental and over-refined in language, but are enlivened by lyrical pieces in which he is far more successful than in his dramatic work.

LOGAN, JOHN (1748-1788).—­Poet, s. of a small farmer at Soutra, Midlothian, was destined for the ministry of a small Dissenting sect to which his f. belonged, but attached himself to the Church of Scotland, and became minister of South Leith in 1773.  He read lectures on the philosophy of history in Edin., and was the author of a vol. of poems.  He also ed. those of his friend, Michael Bruce (q.v.), in such a way, however, as to lead to a controversy, still unsettled, as to the authorship of certain of the pieces inserted.  L., in fact, suppressed some of Bruce’s poems and introduced others of his own.  Unfortunately for the reputation of both poets the disputed authorship extends to the gem of the collection, the exquisite Ode to the Cuckoo, beginning “Hail, beauteous stranger of the grove,” which Burke considered the most beautiful lyric in the language.  L. fell into dissipated habits, resigned his ministerial charge, and went to London, where he took an active part in the controversy regarding the impeachment of Warren Hastings.

LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879).—­Classical scholar, ed. at Camb.  He was Prof. of Ancient Languages in the Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1824-28, of Greek at University Coll., London, 1828-31, and of Latin there, 1842-46.  He did much for the diffusion of education, was one of the founders and sec. of the Royal Geographical Society, and ed. of the Penny Cyclopaedia.  He translated Marcus Aurelius (1862), and The Discourses of Epictetus (1877), and wrote Two Discourses on Roman Law (1847), a subject on which he was the greatest English authority.