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 CORRESPONDENCE.

Interim Report of Brand Committee to Council. {Supra, p. 1 1 1-9.)

Since the date of your Committee's published Report, readers have been found, and are at work, for the counties of Chester, Essex, and Norfolk. Mr. Carey Drake has undertaken to give six months' work on local books at the St. Helier's Library, Jersey. Canon MacCuUoch is taking up work in Scotland, and Miss Legge is reading Scottish folklore at the Bodleian Library. A pupil of Sir Bertram Windle has undertaken to read in Ireland.

The Committee are sending out appeals to the Archaeological Societies of twenty English counties from which little or nothing has yet been received.

Few general works of any value still remain to be read. The students at University College Hall have undertaken to paste Thistleton Dyer's British Popular Customs, which contains various items not noted in other general collections.

The Committee have appointed Miss Burne as their Honorary Secretary.

H. B. Wheatlev.

The Evil Eye in Somerset (1902).

{Communicated by Mrs. M. M. Banks.)

To my personal knowledge the belief in the Evil Eye is not yet extinct in Somerset. Before I came to Sussex I spent many years in Somerset, where my late husband had in his employ a carter, a good enough fellow in a general way, but entirely illiterate. He