[To THE EDITOR OH THE "SPECTATOR."] Sie, — Your correspondent, R. H.
Quick, commits a slight error in attributing the division of Churchmen into High, Low, and Broad to the late Dean Conybeare. It was Dean Conybeare's eldest son, the Rev. William Conybeare, co-author of the Life of St. Paul with Dean Howson, who wrote the article on "Church Parties."
In regard to the discussion of the "Evil Eye," it is my ex- perience that Mahommedan women draw a cloak over a child's. head at the mere approach of an unbelieving European. Oriental Christians in Egypt, Syria, and Asia Minor have always seemed to me quite pleased if you look at and admire their children, so I am surprised to hear of "H. J. W.'s" experience.
Other animals besides dogs dislike a "prolonged gaze "from a-human being. I was recently on board ship for some days, and had some caged lions as fellow-travellers, and I found that to fix them with my eye at first made them uneasy, and would ultimately rouse them to fury. Their tamer also told me that in working with a lion he did not dare to take his eye off that of the animal for a single second.—I am, Sir, &c.,
FRED. CORNWALLIS CONYBEARE.
4 Crick Road, Oxford.
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