Music: Homage to Winner

Almost anybody who can whistle knows Listen to the Mocking Bird, the 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...

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