Arthur Quiller-Couch were published as the book "On the Art of Writing". His rooms were on staircase C, First Court, and known as the 'Q-bicle'. He supervised the beginnings of the English Faculty there — an academic diplomat in a fractious community. He is sometimes regarded as the epitome of the school of English literary criticism later modified by his pupil F. R. Leavis. Alistair Cooke was a notable student of Quiller-Couch and Nick Clarke's semi-official biography of Cooke features Quiller-Couch prominently, noting that he was regarded by the Cambridge establishment as "rather eccentric" even by the university's standards. Quiller-Couch was a
Arthur Quiller-Couch an enormous relief to these two gentlemen when the War Office took over the 10th Battalion on 24 August 1915. In 1887, while he was attending Oxford, he published "Dead Man's Rock", a romance in the style of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island", and later "Troy Town" (1888), a comic novel set in a fictionalised version of his home town Fowey, and "The Splendid Spur" (1889). Quiller-Couch was well known for his story "The Rollcall of the Reef", based on the wreck of HMS "Primrose" during 1809 on the Cornish coast. He published during 1896 a series of critical articles,