CONTENTS.

Notes:—­ Page
  Daniel Defoe and his Ghost Stories 241
  Pet Names, by Rev. B.H.  Kennedy 242
  Lacedaemonian Black Broth 243
  A Hint to Intending Editors 243
  Notes on Cunningham’s London, by E.F.  Rimbault 244
  Folk Lore—­Easter Eggs—­Buns—­Gloucestershire
    Custom—­Curious Custom 244

Queries:—­
  White Hart Inn, Scole, by C.H.  Cooper 245
  On Passages in Pope 245
  Belvoir Castle 246
  Minor Queries:—­Dr. Hugh Todd’s MSS.—­French
    Leave—­Portugal—­Tureen—­Military Execution—­
    Change of Name—­Symbolism of Fir Cone—­Kentish
    Ballad—­Monumental Brass—­A Tickhill Man—­
    Bishop Blaize—­Vox et praeterea Nihil—­Cromwell
    Relics—­Lines on Woman’s Will 246

Replies:—­
  AElfric’s Colloquy, by S.W.  Singer and C.W.G. 248
  Antony Alsop 249
  Replies to Minor Queries:—­Origin of Snob—­Bishop
    Burnet—­Circulation of the Blood—­Genealogy of
    European Sovereigns—­Sir Stephen Fox—­French
    Maxim—­Shipster—­Spars—­Cosmopolis—­Complutensian
    Polyglot—­Christmas Hymn—­Sir J. Wyattville—­
    Peruse—­Autograph Mottoes—­Boduc—­Annus
    Trabeationis 250

Miscellanies:—­
  Pursuits of Literature—­Dr. Dobbs—­Translation from
    V. Bourne—­St. Evona’s Choice—­Muffins and
    Crumpets—­Dulcarnon—­Bishop Barnaby—­Barnacles
    —­Ancient Alms Dish, &c. 253

Miscellaneous:—­
  Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 254
  Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 255
  Notices to Correspondents 255
  Advertisements 256

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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—­