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 9* a VL DEC. 22, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 487 zound-s, 'mail-s, and many more. Hence just as the latter became '« dains, so tli former probably became santies. The chang to sonties is due to the confusion betwecr O.F. saintee. sanctity, and saintee, variant o santJ, health, the latter being much th commoner word. There is nothing left t explain. WALTER W. SKEAT. "ACCREDIT.."—Within the last fifty years or thereabouts, the verb credit, in the "book keeping credit...to, credit...with, has ceasec to be exclusively technical, and, in popula phraseology, accredit threatens to Decorue established as a synonym of it. To accredi ...with is admitted into the Oxford dictionary and, though unsupported by any but in different authority, without note of dis approval. To accredit...to, not recordec there, seems to belong, as yet, to the other side of the Atlantic. In American news papers we meet with it constantly. In one such occurs : " I blame him alone for all thai has been accredited to mo." Two other relevant quotations here follow :— "To the fanatical hordes of Islam is to be accredited the extinction of the Mystic Orgies oi the East."—Alexander Wilder, in R. P. Knight's 'Symbolical Language,' &c. (New York, 1876), p. xxvii. " The introduction of the name Columbia] as a poetic title for the United States is to be accredited to Dr. Timothy Dwight, afterwards President of Yale College."-M. C. L., New York, in ' N. & Q.,' 7 April, p. 272. F. H. Marlesford. THE ROLLER PEDIGREE.—The following is clipped from Treioman's Exeter Flying Post for 20 Oct. The newspaper in question has appeared regularly ever since its first pub- lication in A.D. 1763, and is known affection- ately amongst its admirers as " the Old Flyer":— " It may not be generally known that the Buller family was not originally a Devonshire one, but came from Liskcard, in Cornwall. About 1730 James Buller married the only daughter and heiress of Willam Gould, of Downes, by Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Quicke, of Newton St. Cyres. The Gould family had been in considerable repute in Exeter and Seaborough, Dorset, since 1434. Moses Gould, father of the William Gould mentioned, married Susannah, daughter of John Kelland, of Painsford, for many years M.P. forTotnes. Her sister Bridget married Hugh Stafford, of Pyncs, whose father, Hugh Stafford, had married Lucy Courtenay, of Powderham, whose sister had married William Walrond, of Bradfield. The Earl of Iddesleigh, Lord Northcote of Exeter, and Sir Redvers Buller are therefore descended from the same ancestors of Gould and Kelland. The junior branch of the Buller family was represented by the late Judge Yarde Buller. They acquired the estate of Luptou, near Brixham, by marriage with the Yarde family, and assumed the additional name of ' Yarde.' The late Sir J. Yarde Buller, who for a considerable period represented South Devon, was created Baron Churston in 1858; he died in 1871. The late Mr. John Francis Buller, of Morval, who in the opinion of the Heralds' College was the head of the Buller family, bequeathed Morval to his sisters. Mrs. Henry Hawkins Tremayne, of Exeter, and the Dowager Lady Duckworth, now of Knightleys, Exeter." HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter. DE QUINCEY AND THE STORY OF ' ALADDIN.' —In his account of the juvenile literature road in the company of his sister Elizabeth. De Quincey mentions the ' Arabian Nights. "Mrs. Barbauld," he says, " having occasion in the days of her glory to speak of the ' Arabian Nights," insisted on 'Aladdin,' and secondly on 'Sindbad,' as the two jewels of the collec- tion." This expression of critical opinion appears in ' Miscellaneous Pieces,' in prose, by J. and A. L. Aikin (second edition, 1786, p. 126). In the essay 'On the Pleasure derived from Objects of Terror'— an essay which precedes the admirable fragment of Sir Bertrand '— we read : " In the ' Arabian Nights ' are many most striking examples of the terrible joined with the marvellous: the story of Aladdin and the travels of Sinbad [sic] are particularly xcellent." Such was the apparently obvious remark that gave umbrage to the quick- witted children. It is surely an evidence of the remarkable tenacity of De Quincey's memory that this sentence should have re- mained in his mind from the childish days in which he read it to the middle age in which le wrote his ' Autobiographical Sketches.' He jroceeds to analyze the story of the impri- wned lamp, which can only be released from its subterranean dungeon by "the hands of an nnocent child." The child must have a 'special horoscope," or a "peculiar destiny written in his constitution." To find him the magician " applies his ear to the earth; he istens to the innumerable sounds of footsteps hat at the moment of his experiment are ormenting the surface of the globe; and mongst them all, at a distance of6,000 miles, ilaying in the streets of Bagdad, he distin- iladdin." On this De Quincey enlarges in a markable and highly characteristic passage. Now the curious circumstance is that this ncident, described with all De Quincey's ealth of diction, does not occur in 'Aladdin.' ''he first African magician meets the boy in
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" Whether this magician, who was well skilled in hysiognomy, had remarked in the countenance of