BURNS’S POEMS.
SALE IN NEW YORK. ■, A BIG PRICE REALISED. .'.(United Press Association.) ■ (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, January 8. (Received Jam. 9, at 0.15 a.m.) The sum., 0f23,509 dollars was- given by _tha Rosenbach Company at a - book sale for ; the second edition of Burns’s poems, - chiefly in the Scottish dialect. The chief importance of the book lies in the inscription to “John W. Hyphen Mordo, f Esquire/* in which the author notes thatone honest virtue to which few poets can pretend, and which I trust I shall ever, claim as mine. To no man, whatever,his station in life or his power to serve me, have 1 ever paid a compliment at the expense of truth.”—Australian. Press Association.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20611, 9 January 1929, Page 7
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119BURNS’S POEMS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20611, 9 January 1929, Page 7
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