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The quartet, which is brought here through the courtesy of the Library of Congress, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation, consists of the following players: John Pennington, first violin; Thomas W. Petre, second violin; William Primrose, violoncello; and C. Warwick Evans, viola.
Out from Manhasset, L. I. one dark evening last fortnight put a small, dark craft called Tar Baby. Aboard were a banker, a broker, an aviator. Broker R. Snowden Andrews and Aviator John Petre were old sealers; Banker Edward Fletcher had never heard a seal bark. Thirty-six hours later...
Since the Norman conquest, stag hunting has been a favorite and, as usually regarded, comparatively harmless amusement of the British nobility. In the reign of Charles II, a 70-mile hunt was held from Swinley to Lord Petre's Seat in Essex; the Duke of York was the only...
MR. PETRE-Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated by G. K. Chesterton)-McBride ($2.50). When the grey little man in the taxi ejaculated "Petrel" and hastily explained he was talking to himself, the cabbie smiled sympathetically. But the clerk at the Hotel Splendide knew better. He completed the name most deferentially-John K...
Harley Street magnificos availed him naught. Not until he bumped into old Buff Thompson did it come back to him that he was grey little Peter Blagden, "Mr. Peter" to family servants and solicitors. When the real Petre (John Kosciuszko Petre, U.S.A.) spurred an action, all the King's...