29 DECEMBER 1888, Page 16

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—The author of your

article on "The Evil Eye," in the Spectator of December 22nd, is not aware of the existence of a converse belief in the "Good Eye." May I refer him to "Three Generations of Englishwomen," by Mrs. Ross, Vol. IL, p. 63, where it is said of Lady Duff Gordon in Egypt in 1865, that "the cunning women' set up a theory that her eye was lucky,' and her descriptions of marriages, where she had to 'look at' the brides are wonderfully interesting and vivid" P—I am, Sir, Sic.,