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* QiriLLAYTJTE. 616 sale, and some of the Indians sell a few head of cattle during the year. Consumption is always present among them and every year is the cause of several deaths. The Quillayute have a school, but no missionary work has ever been attempted among either them or the Hoh. In 1889 the two tribes numbered respectively 252 and 71. In 1901 tiity had decreased to 234 and 66. QUILLBACK, See Skimback. QUIL'LER-COtrCH, koSch, Arthur Thomas (1803—). An English author. He was born in Cornwall, November 21, 1803, and educated at Clifton and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he remained for two years as classical lecturer after taking his degree. Then he removed to London and devoted liimself to literary work. He was one of the original staft' of The Speaker, and re- tained his connection with it until 1899, though after 1S91 he resided cliieily in his native county of Cornwall, whose scenery, traditions, and char- acters he has faithfully de]ucted in most of his books. These include : Dead Man's Hock { 1887 ) ; Trmj Town (1888) ; The Splendid Spwr (1889) ; The Delectable Duchy (1893) ; Wa7idering Heath (1895) ; la (1896) ; The Ship of Stars (1899) ; Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts (1900); The Adventures of Harry Rerel (1903). In all of these a vivid and dramatic imagination, free from any touch of morbidity, is shown. This quality, together with his mastery of style, led to his being selected after Stevenson's death to com- plete tlic hitter's unfinished novel Saint Ives. Quiller-Couch, who is widely known by his pseu- donym of 'Q,' has also edited two excellent anthologies of English verse, and published some of his own, both serious and i)layful, as well as a volume of reviews under the title Adrentiires in Criticism (1890). QUIL'LIAM, William Henry Abdullah ( 1850 — ) . An English writer on Mohammedan- ism, born in Liverpool, and educated at the Liver- pool Institute and at King William's College, Isle of Man. He became a solicitor in 1878, went to Morocco in 1884, and became a iloham- medan convert in the next year. Afterwards he traveled in Morocco, Turkey, and Persia, and in 1895 received the title Sheik-ul-Islam of the British Isles from the Ameer of Afghanistan. He wrote a few novels and Faith of Islam (1887), Fanatics and Fanaticism (1888), Religion of the Sword (1889), Moses, Christ, and Mohammed (1897), and Studies in Islam (1898). QTJIL'LINAN, Edward (1791-1851). A Brit- ish poet, born at O]iorto, in Portugal. Educated at a Roman Catholic school in England, he re- turned to Portugal and took a position, against his inclination, in his father's counting-liouse. On the French invasion (1807) the family fled to England. Edward entered the army, and served for some time in the Peninsular War. Re- tiring from the army (1821), he settled in the Lake District near Wordsworth, whose daughter Dorotliy he married. He died at Ambleside. Qnillinan wrote a good deal of mediocre verse and one novel. His last years were given to a translation of the Lnsiad of Camoes, which was never completed. His wife, Dorothy Quillinan (1804-1847), was author of a charming book of travel entitled A Journal of a Few Months' Residence in Portugal and Glimpses of the South of Spain (1847). QXJIN". QTJILLOTA, kel-yo'ta. A town in the Prov- ince of Valparaiso, Chile, situated in a pleasant plain on the Aconcagua River, 20 miles northeast of Valparaiso, and on the railroad between that city and Santiago (Map: Chile, C 10). It is the centre of a copper-mining district. Popula- tion, about 12,000. QtriLOA, ke-lo'a. A seaport town of German East Africa. See Kilwa Kivinje. QUILP. A repulsive and malicious dwarf in Dickens's Old Curiosity Shop, who delighted in tormenting his pretty, timid little wife, Betsy. He called himself a ship-breaker, dealing In old iron and wood on Tower Hill, and at last drowned himself when about to be ariested for felony, QUIL'TER, Harry (1851—). An English artist and author, born at Lower Norwood, in Surrey, January 24, 1851. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he subsequently studied art at Bruges and in Italy. In 1878 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. Between 1870 and 1888 he was on the staff of several London periodicals. He founded and conducted for two years (1888-90) the Universal Review. Among his published books are Giotto (1880), Senten- tice Artis (1886), Preferences in Art, Life, and Literature (1882), and 7s Marriage a Failure?. (1888). With his wife's help he brought out, at Christmas, 1898, an edition of Browning's Pied Piper of Hamelin with beautiful type and border designs. QtriMPER, kaN'par' (Breton kemper, conflu- ence). The capital of the Department of Fi- nistfere, France, picturesquely situated at the con- fluence of the Steir and the Odet, about 35 miles south-southeast of Brest (Map; France, B 4). The Cathedral of Saint Corentin, a stately and richly ornamented Gothic edifice commenced in 1424, is the principal building. The eleventh- century Church of Locmaria and the sixteenth- century Church of Saint Mathieu are interesting. The educational institutions include a lyceum, | public library, and museum. Potteries, tan-yards, lireweries, and paper factories are the chief in- dustrial establishments, and a coasting trade and sardine-fishing are actively carried on. Quimper was the ancient capital of Cornouailles. Popu- lation, in 1901, 19,441. QUIMPERLE, kaN'par'la'. The capital of an arrondissement in the Department of Finist&re, France, on the Laita, 12 miles northwest of Lorient (Map: France, C 4). Its chief build- ings are the fourteenth-centurj- Church of Saint ^Michel, and the Church of Sainte Croix, modeled after the H0I3' Sepulchre at Jerusalem. It has fisheries and carries on a coasting trade. Popu- lation, in 1901, 9036, QUIN, James (1693-1766). A celebrated actor of Irish descent, born in London. He made his first appearance on the stage about 1714 at Dublin as Abel in The Committee. Shortly after he proceeded to London, where he was engaged at Drury Lane, but for quite inferior parts. In 1716, however, the sudden illness of a leading actor led to Quin's being called on to sustain the character of Bajazet in Tamerlane. His success was marked. Next year he went to Lincoln's Inn Fields, where he remained as a principal actor for fourteen years. Among his best parts were Captain Macheath in the Beggars' Opera, Falstaff in the Merry Wives of Windsor, and Sir ,