_Planets of the Months._--Can any of your numerous correspondents give me the names of the planets for the months, and the names of the precious stones which symbolize those planets? T.B. Wimpole Street. _Family of Kyme._--Sir John Kyme is said to have married a daughter of Edward IV. Can any of your correspondents inform me where I can find an account of this Sir John Kyme, his descendants, &c.? I should be glad of information respecting the family of Kyme generally, their pedigree, &c. &c. I may say that I am aware that the original stock of his family had possessions in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, and that there were members of it of considerable importance during the reigns of the earlier monarchs succeeding William I. I am also acquainted with some old pedigrees found in certain visitation books. But none of the pedigrees I have seen appear to come down later than the fourteenth, or quite the beginning of the fifteenth, century. I should be glad to know of any pedigree coming down through the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, and to have any account of the later history of the family. BOLD. _West of England Proverb._--Can any of your correspondents explain the saying, used when a person undertakes what is beyond his ability,--"He must go to Tiverton, and ask Mr. Able?" D.X. _Coke and Cowper, how pronounced._--Upon what authority is Lord _Coke's_ name pronounced as though it were spelt _Cook_, and why is _Cowper_, the poet, generally called _Cooper_? Is this a modern affectation, or were these names so rendered by their respective owners and their contemporaries? Such illustrious names should certainly be preserved in their integrity, and even pedanticism might blush at corrupting such "household words." There certainly should be no uncertainty on the subject. C.A. _Orinoco or Orinooko._--In the _Illustrated News_ of May 26th is an account of the launch of the "Orinoco" steamer. Can any of your readers tell me if this is the correct mode of spelling the name of this river? I believe the natives spell it "Orinooko," the two _oo's_ being pronounced _u_. E.D.C.F. _Petty Cury._--There is a street bearing this name in Cambridge, which was always a mystery to me in my undergraduate days; perhaps some correspondent can unravel it? E.S.T. _Virgil._--Æneid, viii. 96.: "Viridesque secant placido æquore silvas." Will any of your classical correspondents favour me with their opinion as to whether _secant_ in the above passage is intended to convey, or is capable of conveying, the idea expressed in the following line of Tennyson (_Recollections of the Arabian Nights_): ---- "my shallop ... clove The citron _shadows_ in the blue?" This interpretation has been suggested to me as more poetical than the one usually given; but it is only supported by one commentator, Servius. ERYX.