The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ing dismissed by the em-peror, Quesada squandered in dissolute living histreasures brought from Bogota. He was afterwardmade marshal of New Grenada, took part in some fur-ther conquests, and died_ at an advanced age. Theaccount of the conquest which he wrote has been INDIANS. See Yucatan, Vol. XXIV,pp. 759, 760. QUICHUA INDIANS. See Peru, Vol. XVIII,p. 676. QUICKSILVER. See Mercury,Vol. XVI, p. , Arthur T., an Englishnovelist, whose stories appear usually over the ini-tial Q., wa
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ing dismissed by the em-peror, Quesada squandered in dissolute living histreasures brought from Bogota. He was afterwardmade marshal of New Grenada, took part in some fur-ther conquests, and died_ at an advanced age. Theaccount of the conquest which he wrote has been INDIANS. See Yucatan, Vol. XXIV,pp. 759, 760. QUICHUA INDIANS. See Peru, Vol. XVIII,p. 676. QUICKSILVER. See Mercury,Vol. XVI, p. , Arthur T., an Englishnovelist, whose stories appear usually over the ini-tial Q., was born at Pol-perro, Cornwall, Nov. 21,1863. He was educatedin Devonshire and at Clif-ton College, after whichhe passed to Trinity Col-lege, Oxford, where hegraduated a first-class inclassics. While at collegehe contributed to the Ox-ford Magazine, and for atime was classical lecturerat Trinity. He afterwardproceeded to London, andwas launched on a literarycareer. With J. M. Bar-rie, he became a member of the staff of The Speaker,in which literary weekly many of his stories and lit-. A. T. QUILLER-COUCH. erary criticisms first appeared. His principal pub-lications are Dead Mans Rock (1887); The Astonish-ing History of Troy Town (\%%?,); The Splendid Spur(1889); The Wartvickshire Avon (1891); The BluePavilions (1891); Noughts and Crosses (1892); I SawThree Ships (1892); The Delectable Duchy (1893);Green Bays: Verses and Parodies (1893); The GoldenPomp : A Procession of English Lyrics from Surrey toShirley {id>gs)\ la: A Love ^/^;7 (1895); Wander-ing Heath (1896); and a series of cleverly-writtencriticisms, entitled Adventures in Criticism {i&()6). QUILLWORTS, the common name of speciesof the genus Lsoetes, a small group of are grass-like plants, with narrow leaves grow-ing in a cluster from short, tuber-like stems, and growin water or muddy places. The spore-cases areborne upon *he leaf-bases within, and are of twokinds, producing large spores {macrospores)
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