21 SEPTEMBER 1951, Page 4

A word more on Veni, Creator Spiritus. First of all,

I inadver- tently gave the first line of Bishop Cosin's translation as " Come Holy Ghost our hearts inspire," instead of " our souls inipire." Second, and more, important, I have been sent evidence, reason- ably convincing, that the author was Rabanus Maurus, who became Archbishop of Mainz in 849 and died in 856. References to him will be found in Helen Waddell's well-known Wandering