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Queen's Park. Suburb of 

 Glasgow, Scotland. Noted for its 

 football club, it contains a recrea- 

 tion ground and a museum. Pop. 

 13,000. See Glasgow. 



Queens town. ' Urban dist., 

 market town, and seaport of co. 

 Cork, Ireland. It is situated on the 

 S. side of Great 

 Island in Cork 

 Harbour, 13 m. 

 S.E. of Cork, with 

 a station on the 

 G.S. &W.Rly. It 

 stands on the 

 slope of a hill 

 with the streets 

 arranged in ter- Queenstown arms 

 races; the finest building is the 

 Roman Catholic cathedral of the 

 diocese of Cloyne. Queenstown owes 

 its importance to its position front- 

 ing the entrance to Cork Harbour. 

 It is a naval station, a pleasure 

 resort, and a yachting centre. 

 Queenstown was known as Cove of 

 Cork until, after a visit paid in 

 1849 by Queen Victoria, it was 

 given its present name. Market 

 day, Sat. Pop. 8,200. See Cork. 

 Queenstown. Town of Tas- 

 mania, Australia. It stands on the 

 Queen river, 23 m. from Strahan, 

 its port. The terminus of the Mt. 

 Lyell Company's rly., it contains 

 reduction works for copper mined 

 at Mt. Lyell, saw-mills, and brick- 

 works. Pop. 3,800. 



Queenstown. Town of the 

 Cape Province, S. Africa. It stands 

 on an elevated plateau, 3,500 ft. 

 high, between the Stormberg and 

 KatbergMts. and near the Great Kei 

 river. It is on the rly., 154 m. from 

 East London. There is a botanic 

 garden. The town is the centre of 

 a district producing wheat and 

 wool. Queenstown, founded in 

 1853 and named after Queen Vic- 

 toria, is laid out in the form of a 

 hexagon. Pop. (whites) 4,500. 



Queen's University, BELFAST- 

 Irish university. Founded in 1909. 

 it was formerly Queen's College, 

 . which, estab- 

 lished in 1849, 

 was one of the 

 three colleges in 

 the Royal Uni- 

 versity of Ire- 

 land. The Royal 

 University was 

 dissolved in 1909, 

 Queen's University, when Queen's 

 Ireland, arms College itself was 

 made a university. It has five 

 faculties arts, science, law, medi- 

 cine, and commerce and admits 

 women equally with men to its 

 classes and degrees. The university 

 is entirely non-residential, and 

 affiliated to it are the Municipal 

 Technical Institute, Belfast, and the 

 Royal College of Science, Dublin. 



Queen's University. Canadian 

 university at Kingston, Ontario. 

 It was founded in 1841 by mem- 

 bers of the Presbyterian Church, 

 and was at first mainly a theolo- 

 gical centre. In 1854 a faculty of 

 medicine was added to the existing 

 ones in arts and theology. In 1912 

 the faculty of theology became a 

 separate theological college, con- 

 trolled by the Presbyterian Church, 

 but united to the university. The 

 university includes a school of 

 mining, founded in 1893. The 

 buildings include a valuable li- 

 brary, several museums, an obser- 

 vatory, and laboratories. The 

 governing body is a board of 

 trustees. The degrees are open to 

 men and women. 



Quelpart. Island belonging to 

 Korea (Chosen). Situated at the 



Queenstown, Ireland. The harbour, looking towards the entrance. Top, right, 



the Roman Catholic cathedral of S. Colman, begun in 1868 and consecrated in 



1919. It was designed by Pugin 



S.W. entrance of the Strait of 

 Chosen, 53 m. S. of the S. extrem- 

 ity of Korea, it is a rock-bound 

 island, encompassed by islets, and 

 measures 45 m. in length and 21 m. 

 in breadth. Its surface is hilly and 

 well forested, Mt. Auckland, the 

 culminating height, reaching to 

 about 6,500 ft. 



Quentin Durward. Romance 

 of France and Flanders in 1468, by 

 Sir Walter Scott, the seventeenth 



Queen's University, Belfast. Main buildings, known 

 formerly as Queen's College 



of the Waverley novels, published 

 in June, 1823. It was the first 

 novel in which Scott ventured on 

 foreign ground, and is one of the 

 finest romances in the language. 

 The titular hero is a young Scot 

 who seeks his fortune in France, 

 becomes a member of the King's 

 Scottish guard, champions the 

 young and beautiful Isabelle de 

 Croye, and b)' his good sense, 

 firmness, and gallantry is put in 

 possession of 

 wealth, rank, and 

 . beauty. King 

 Louis XI, Charles 

 the Bold, duke 

 of Burgundy, 

 William de la 

 Marck, Cardinal 

 Balue, and Phil- 

 ippe de Comines 

 are fine portraits, 

 and the Bo- 

 hemian scenes are 

 noteworthy. 



Quercus. Gen- 

 eric Latin name 

 for the oak (q.v.). 



