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" Olney is pronounced Oney, of course with a long

>, and it rhymes pony, coney. The I is silent, as it

s in hundreds of other names. The people of the

own pronounce it Oney, and never give it another

-hought. Strangers, however, are much perplexed,


 * jid make most horrible faces in trying to say Ole-

ney rhyming pole-ney, or 01-ney rhyming roll-ney

[altered in MS. to ' poll-ney ' by Mr. Wright in the

topy of the paper which he kindly forwarded to

me]. Mr. J. W. [should read ' W. J.'] Harvey, the

antiquary, informs me that at the time of the Civil

Wars the word was generally written as well as

] (renounced ' Oney.' Later it was corrupted to

Oulney."

1 think I ought to state that Mr. Wright lias misunderstood the information which I conveyed to him in brief but a few days previously, and which, upon amplification, amounts to nothing more than this that in the ' Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army during the Great Civil War,' kept by Richard Symonds, Camden Soc., p. 146, the place- name Olney, co. Bucks, is printed, as from the original MS., " Oney." Whether it was at the period in question "generally" so written, and how it was then usually pro- nounced, I am not in a position to state.

W. I. R. V.

ANNE MAY (9 th S. i. 88, 176). At Fort St.

George there is a tombstone outside the church

, which once covered the remains of Anne

Fowke, who died in 1734, and of her husband

J Randall Fowke, who died in 1745. In the

marriage register book the name is spelt


 * Ann, 1713. The name May only once before

i occurs in the register books, viz., in 1691,

when Daniel May was buried. Perhaps this

will help MR. F. R. FOWKE.

FRANK PENNY, LL.M. Fort St. George.

F. W. NEWMAN (9 th S. i. 189). The book is certainly that of my honoured friend the late Prof. Newman. The full title is :

"Lectures on Logic, or on the Science of Evidence Generally, embracing both Demonstrative and Pro- bable Reasoning, with the Doctrine of Causation. Delivered at Bristol College in the year 1836. By Francis W. Newman, late Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. Oxford, J. H. Parker ; J. G. & F. Riving- ton, London, 1838," 12mo. pp. 192.

The book is not particularly rare, and can >e seen at the British Museum and other ibraries. In 1869, when Newman published lis first volume of ' Miscellanies,' he included n it some fragments from the 'Lectures,' and in an introductory notice he explains ihat he had expanded his little book into a treatise on 'Ancient and Modern Logic,' but, owing to the publication of John Stuart Mill's 'Logic,' had not issued it. It is a matter for regret that so much of the literary

work of Francis William Newman lies buried in periodicals. I more than once urged him to prepare a bibliographical list of his writings, great and small ; but this was not done. Those collected in the five volumes of his ' Miscel- lanies ' form a very inconsiderable portion of what he wrote in magazines, famous or obscure. This age has had few, if any, who have excelled Prof. Newman in scholarship, in keenness of intellect, or in moral earnest- ness. WILLIAM E. A. AXON. Moss Side, Manchester.

COUND (9 th S. i. 48). There is an excellent article on Cound and Condover in a paper by Mr. W. H. Duignan in the last issued part of the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeo- logical and Natural History Society (Second Series, vol. ix. part iii.), which will, I think, afford MR. J. ASTLEY all the information he requires upon the subject.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

REMEMBRANCE OF PAST JOY IN TIME OF SORROW (9 th S. i. 123). Single texts are dangerous things. A careful reading of Wisdom xi. 12, 13, 14, will show that the passage hardly bears the interpretation put upon it. See the paraphrase in the Rev. R. W. Churton's commentary ('Apocrypha,' S.P.C.K.) :

"A double grief came upon them ; for they were the more vexed at the relief given to the Hebrews in the desert, when they called to mind their own anguish of thirst when their river was smitten." EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Hastings.

Sometimes the poets think that remem- brance of past joy in time of sorrow is com- fort. Horace says that Jupiter, do what he may, will not undo the past :

Non tamen irritum Quodcunque retro est efficiet.

Byron echoes Horace :

Whatever comes, I have been blest.

E. YARDLEY.

" TABLE DE COMMUNION " (9 th S. i. 25). Such mistranslations are common with writers Avho do not understand French Catholic lan- guage or its English Catholic equivalent. Some time ago I pointed out various mistakes of this kind in the English dress of 'The Letters of a Country Vicar.' Reading the book again, I find a great many more. Thus " canonical " for " canon " law. " A cabinet

full of ornaments carefully wrapped up in

silver paper the cloth of gold ornament."

"Ornament" is not, as English readers might suppose, a flower vase or the like, but simply a vestment. " Great " altar should be " high "