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...song that asks "Oh where! Oh where! is my little dog gone?" and What Is Home Without a Mother? Almost nobody knows the name of the author of any of them. It so happens that the same man wrote all three, and 112 more besides. His name was Septimus Winner, he was born no years ago last week (May 11) and some Philadelphia antiquarians took that occasion to issue a little monograph,* largely documented by Winner's diary, to bring one of the nation's notable old songsmiths back into the nation's memory...
James Madison was still living, New York State was about to abolish slavery, passenger railroads were about to be realized when Septimus Winner was born in Philadelphia in 1827. Joseph Winner, his father, made violins and Septimus studied music almost from the cradle. "Sep" got out of the Philadelphia High School at 20, began to give lessons on the banjo, guitar and violin, and married a watchman's daughter named Hannah Guyer. He played at balls and parades, was a member of the Philadelphia Brass Band. Hit by the hard times, he wrote in his diary: "Delightful...
...than any other critic has done. Says TIME: "The lives of human beings are even less observable indications of the same pattern but serve to mark the wavelike motion of life's force." Doesn't this serve as the final and complete explanation of Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith...
...Rittenberg was proud to do Stephen Bransgrove, A. N. A. This spring Academician Bransgrove submitted another canvas of a man, a girl, five setters and a shotgun. Another more acute Academician discovered that, line for line, stroke for stroke, it was a copy of a picture by one H. Septimus Power now hanging in the National Gallery in Sydney, Australia, and reproduced in full color in the 1927 Christmas annual of Table Talk. Then came the disclosures: Stephen Bransgrove A. N. A. apparently never painted an original stroke in his life. Directors of the National Gallery in Sydney had purchased...
...pince-nez-ed, Author Locke likes dogs, children. He is married, has one adopted daughter. Fortnight ago Author Locke was seriously ill in his villa on the Riviera, his great & good friend Author E. Phillips Oppenheim at the bedside. Other books: The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne, The Beloved Vagabond, Septimus, Simon the Jester, The Joyous Ad- ventures of Aristide Pujol, Stella Maris, The Fortunate Youth, Jaffery, The Rough Road, Ancestor Jorico...