James Quin, 

 English actor 



After Hudson 



Quin, JAMES (1883-1766). 



English actor. Born in London 

 of Irish descent, Feb. 24, 1693, 

 and educated 

 in Dublin, he 

 came into no- 

 tice by his ren- 

 dering of Baja- 

 zet in Tamer- 

 lane at Drury 

 Lane Theatre, 

 London, 1715, 

 and by killing 

 a fellow actor 

 in a duel. For 

 many years he 

 played leading parts at Lincoln's 

 Inn Fields and Covent Garden. In 

 1746 he challenged comparison with 

 Garrick, when he appeared as 

 Horatio to his Lothario in The Fair 

 Penitent, as Falstaff to his Hotspur 

 in Henry IV, and as Gloster to his 

 Hastings in Jane Shore, both 

 actors also impersonating Richard 

 III. He retired from the regular 

 stage in 1751, and died at Bath, 

 Jan. 21, 1766. There is an anony- 

 mous Life, 1766, reprinted in 

 revised form, 1887. 



Quince. Trees and shrubs of 

 the natural order Rosaceae, genus 

 Pyrus. Natives of Europe, Japan, 



Quince. Branch with leaves and 

 fruit ; inset, flowers 



and China, the common species was 

 introduced into Britain in 1573. 

 They vary in height from 5 to 20 ft., 

 and are readily propagated by 

 layers or suckers in autumn. 

 Quinces flourish in moist soil, and 

 the pear-shaped, astringent, yellow 

 fruit is used in jellies. 



Quincunx (Lat.). Arrange- 

 ment of five things, one in each 

 corner and one in the centre of a 

 square or oblong space, as in play- 

 ing-cards or dice. The term is 

 applied to trees arranged in an 

 orchard so that those in one row 

 face the spaces between those in 

 the neighbouring row ; also to a 

 reliquary, the four outer parts of 

 which, two on each side, close over 

 the central part. In the fighting 

 formation of the Roman legion the 

 maniples are said to have been 

 arranged in quincunx order. 



Quincy. City and river port of 

 Illinois, U.S.A., the co. seat of 

 Adams co. It stands on the Missis- 

 sippi river, here spanned by a fine 

 rly. bridge, 265 m. by rly. S.W. of 

 Chicago, and is served by the 

 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 

 and other rlys. Manufactures 

 include stoves, pumps, boots and 

 shoes, machinery, and show-cases. 

 Settled in 1821, Quincy was in- 

 corporated, 1834, and received a city 

 charter, 1839. Pop. (1920) 36,000. 

 Quincy. City of Massachusetts, 

 U.S.A., in Norfolk co. It is situ- 

 ated 8 m. from Boston and 1 m. 

 from the sea on the New \ork, 

 New Haven and Hartford Rly. 

 Quincy granite is exported in large 

 quantities; the horse-rly. made 

 1826-27 to transport the granite 

 for the Bunker Hill monument was 

 the first rly. in the U.S.A. The city 

 manufactures boots and shoes, 

 soaps and chemicals, has a boat- 

 yard, and contains the Adams 

 Academy and the Woodward 

 Institute. The old Quincy House, 

 a fine specimen of colonial archi- 

 tecture, is a museum of Colonial 

 and Revolutionary antiquities. 

 John Hancock, John Adams and his 

 son John Quincy Adams were 

 natives. Settled in 1625 as Mt. 

 Wollaston, and one of the oldest 

 settlements in the state, it took 

 its present name in 1792 and ob- 

 tained a city charter in 1888. Pop. 

 (1920) 48,000. 



Quinet, EDGAR (1803-75). 

 French author. Born Feb. 17, 1803, 

 at Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain, after 

 extensive tra- 

 vels he was 

 appointed pro- 

 fessor in Lyons 

 University and 

 later in the Col- 

 lege de France. 

 An active 

 Radical in poli- 

 tics, he was 

 exiled after the 

 coup d'etat, 

 1851, but returned to France on 

 the fall of the empire. As an his- 

 torian he is romantic in style but 

 philosophic in purpose, seeking, as 

 in his Revolutions d'ltalie and La 

 Revolution, the inner significance 

 of the facts presented. His other 

 writings include a mystical treatise, 

 Du Genie des Religions ; Ahas- 

 verus, a kind of allegorical miracle- 

 play on the Wandering Jew ; and 

 the allegorical prose-epics, Prome- 

 thee and Merlin 1'Enchanteur. He 

 died at Versailles, March 27, 1875. 

 See Life, R. Heath, 1881. 



Quinine. Alkaloid present in 

 the bark of Cinchona succirubra. 

 The sulphate hydrochloride and 

 acid -hydrochloride are white 

 crystalline salts used in medicine 



QU1NONE 



in doses of 1 to 10 grains. Quinine 

 is used in medicine to stimulate 

 the salivary and gastric secretions 

 in various forms of indigestion. Its 

 most important use, however, is in 

 malaria. A dose of 15 to 30 grains 

 given before an attack is due may 

 ward off the attack or cause it to 

 be much milder. The drug appears 

 to act as a direct poison to the 

 malaria parasites which are present 

 in the blood. Excessive doses of 

 quinine produce ringing in the ears, 

 giddiness, disturbance of vision, 

 and headache. See Cinchona. 



Quinn's Post. Name given in 

 the Great War to a strong position 

 in Gallipoli peninsula, a little to the 

 north of Gaba Tepe (q.v. ) and 

 S.W. of the main masses of Sari 

 Bair (q.v.). Here hi May, 1915, the 

 Anzacs were engaged in heavy 

 fighting with the Turks. See Galli- 

 poli, Campaign in ; Krithia, Battles 

 of ; Australia and the Great War. 



Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa). 

 Herb of the natural order Cheno- 

 podiaceae. It is a native of the 



Quinoa. Foliage and flower clusters ; 

 inset, fruit 



Pacific slopes of the Andes. It 

 attains a height of 6 ft., with a 

 stout, furrowed stem and some- 

 what triangular-oval leaves with 

 sinuate margins. The small green, 

 clustered flowers are succeeded by 

 small fruits, each containing a 

 single round, flattened seed. The 

 plant is cultivated for the sake of 

 these seeds, which are boiled to 

 furnish a sort of gruel. Sometimes 

 they are roasted before boiling. 



Quinoline. Organic base origin- 

 ally prepared by distilling quinine 

 with caustic potash. It also exists 

 in coal-tar. It is a colourless, oily 

 liquid with a faint aromatic odour 

 recalling peppermint oil. Quinoline 

 is made synthetically by heating 

 a mixture of glycerin, aniline, nitro- 

 benzene, and sulphuric acid. 



Quinone. Organic compound 

 first prepared by Woskresensky 

 by oxidising quinic acid with 

 manganese dioxide and sulphuric 

 acid. It forms beautiful crystals, 

 and its solution stains the skin 

 permanently brown. 



