As a student of Oxford University, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch signed articles contributed to the Oxford University Magazine with the letter "Q," and he continued to use that signature all his life. Q had a remarkable, and yet dual, career: first, he publis...
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, commonly known as "Q," the initial with which he signed many of his works, was a reformer and reform writer primarily in working to improve secondary education in Cornwall and in contributing to the reform of the study of Englis...
At the end of the nineteenth century, Arthur Quiller-Couch was a prominent man of letters, one of a group of literary, often scholarly, journalists whose work filled the pages of the better magazines with short stories, book reviews, and causeries. As as...
From Swartkrans cave in the Transvaal region of South Africa comes news of the earliest known use of fire. In a recent issue of Nature, archeologists C. K. Brain and A. Sillen, of the Transvaal Museum and University of Cape Town, report the discovery...
It was the perfect situation. The ram was standing broadside at about 125 yards. The shooting position was perfectly steady. The let-off was perfect. Even the shot was perfectly placed. He went down so fast, I could not even see him fall. It was...
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