13 AUGUST 1887, page 18

Rush-bearing At Gra Smere.

fTo Tux EDITOR or Tar "Eirserwroa."] Sm,—Tourists passing through Grasmere on Saturday last must have been surprised to see the low broad walls of the old grey church covered......

Books.

THE MOUNTAIN OF THE MONKS.* Tars most interesting book is an account of a visit paid to Mount Athos, in the summer of 1883, by Mr. Athelstan Riley and his friend, the Rev.......

Poetry.

BARMOUTH, AUGUST. ALL day these eyes with fairest things are blest,— The mystic lights upon the distant steep, The diamond sparkle of the rills that leap, The purple rocks with......