Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1929, Page 46

RECORD FEE PAID FOR BURNS LETTER Missive With “Kirk’s Alarm” | Brings $9,050—Five Barrie . Books Sold for $2,285. The bulk of the years collector 40 ($200) Shaw’s unpublished poem ‘Terry on her stage jubilee: “Oh, Ellen, was it kind of fate, To make your youth so thrifty, ‘That you are young at fifty-eight, Whilst we, are old at fifty.” $800 for “Lost World.” One of the big surprises to collectors for the manuseri of the Speckled Band, By the Assoclated Press. e i LONDON, November 20.—Books and 3 Banuseripts have brought record prices D Mty hayer at Sotheby's lately, Sir James Barrle, George Bernard Shaw, Sir William Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells being especially popular. e Lost Worl at £160 ($800). H. G, Wells shared in the day’s suc-~ ing a total of £146 ($730). Singing for Exercise. :‘;a_l’u"“md for a total of | and sometimes to those around, the ot 2 of singing is a better exercise than most persons have any thought of. It is good exercise for the threat, lungs and chest and now it is recommended for the ears. A Western physician who is called upon to do a great deal of driving Over the country sass that, after a particularly hard experience of this kind, his ears al £ fected, probably by the noise of the vibration ‘of the engine. In ises up his voice an sings to the best of his ability and this treatment soon relieves the ears, 1 Wells, New York collector, | paid a record price of £110 ($550) ftor “A Window in Thrums,” which was published in 1889 for 6 shillings. Wells also paid another record fee when he bought a Burns letter containing the verses, “The Kirk's Alarm,” for £1,810 ($9,050). lways seem to be af- Paid Big Price for Original, A first edition of Shaw's “Widowers' | this 200 Houses” also went to Wells for £80 ($400). He had previously picked up . . Quality at a Saving! Your nearest ASCO Store is well ipped to furnish o with your Foods and Table I::d::‘inqxcell;ltm,“' e consistent savings. 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