DANIEL DE FOE AND HIS GHOST STORIES

I feel obliged by your intelligent correspondent "D.S." having ascertained that De Foe was the author of the *Tour through Great Britain*. Perhaps he may also be enabled to throw some light on a subject of much curiosity connected with De Foe, that appears to me well worth the inquiry. Mrs. Bray, in her General Preface prefixed to the first volume of the reprint, in series, of her Novels and Romances, when giving an account of the circumstances on which she founded her very graphic and interesting romance of *Trelawny of Trelawne*, says— "In Gilbert's *History of Cornwall*, I saw a brief but s…