{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser.", "edition": "01", "page": "p1", "byline": ""}
Liferature.- oldsmith was astonished
when the bookseller gave him FIVE shillings
couplet for his delightful poem of The
Deserted VUlage. when each line was fairly,
worth as many pounds; but AN instance OF
ljberality has occurred in Russia, which
really deserves recording. Alexander Pa
selikin, a young poet, has recently produ-
ced work, which does not contain above
six hundred lines, and for which he has re-
ceived three thousand roubles, nearly one
peupd sterling per linoi