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...
Park Je-chun. Chang Soo Ko, tr. Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell East Asia Program. 1997. xi + 82 pages. $22 ($14 paper). ISBN 1-885445-58-X (88-1 paper). Chang Soo Ko, or Ko Ch'ang-su (b. 1934), a member of South Korea's foreign service and currently ambassador to...
Shipbuilders vying to construct Paradise Cruise's Star of Honolulu in 1989 agreed on one thing--it was insane. Not only would the $7-million cruise vessel be the largest, most elaborate of its kind built in the country, it would also be the first to cater...