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 IV. JULY 22,1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 67 be long remembered as the founder of a gallery of paintings. The story goes that, when a babe, this gentleman was let down in a basket from a window in the Empress's palace at St. Peteraburgh, and endowed, by his imperial mother, with a fortune of 100,000 roubles of gold. This fortune was well improved by his father, who brought the princely boy up as a merchant; and when of age, he made in this country such a prudent and benevolent use of his vast means, that his name will be placed in our annals as the rival, in good deeds, of our Greshams and Herriots [st'el He died full of years and honours, in England, in 1813. His daughter, the beautiful Julia A, married a Russian prince : and his son follows the steps of his father in England." 1813 is a misprint for 1823, in which year, on 22 January, Angerstein died at Wood- lands, his villa at Blackheath, having retired from business twelve years previously. R. L. MORETON. GAEIBALDI : ORIGIN OF THE NAME.—The Pall Mall Gazette, in a recent article on Mazzini and Garibaldi, remarked :— " In their very physical characteristics there was the most marked difference between the two great men. Garibaldi, reddish-haired, clear blue-eyed, sedate in his manners, had nothing of the typical Italian. His very name, meaning ' bold in war,' showed his non-Italian, Germanic descent. Dukes in Bavaria once bore the name of Garibald. In England, even, there is, to this day, a Garboldisham —the Home or Settlement of some Angle or Saxon Chieftain." Garboldisham is a village in South Norfolk' 8i miles east of Thetford, with a population of 640 persons. Garibaldi was of Genovese or Ligurian descent, or possibly a Fleming. Mark Antony Garibaldo was a Flemish painter of some celebrity, 1C20-90. JOHN HEBB. DEAN STANLEY'S POEM 'THE GIPSIES.'— I possess two quite separate early editions of this Newdigate Prize poem, " recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 7, 1837." They are both printed by J. Vincent, of Oxford. The first edition is dated 1837; the second, 1842. _The second is not merely a reprint, but quite distinct. The first contains eighteen pages and a little over ; the second, fifteen pages. They both belonged to the collection of the late Edward Hawkins, F.S.A., of the British Museum. T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A. Lancaster. PAUL JONES'S BIRTHPLACE. (See 10th S. iiL 415.)—I have what I believe to be a tolerably correct biography of John Paul Jones in Blackie's ' Popular Encyclopaedia,' 1837, wherein it is stated that Paul Jones (as he preferred to call himself) was born at Arbigland, Kirkcudbright, 6 July, 1747. Messrs. Dean <fe Son, of Fleet Street, pub- lished about thirty years ago, in their " Deeds of Daring Library," a life of Paul Jones. I have urged upon the firm to re- publish this book ; but it is " out of print," and, possibly, they have not an " original" copy to " re-comp. " from. This biography is appreciative, if a trifle severe. I under- stand that (according to the papers) the "identity "of Paul Jones's bones is gravely doubted—"shall these dry bones live?" I do not see why we should disinter—and exhibit—the remains of great men or women, as we did in the case of Rameses II. Why not let them rest in peace ? HERBERT B. CLAYTON. 39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane. [Arbigland is in Kirkbean parish, so that there is no contradiction between the statements in the 'D.N.B.' and Bluckie's 'Popular Encyclopaedia.' Bartholomew's * Gazetteer of the British Isles' mentions under "Arbigland" that Paul Jones was born there, and under "Kirkbean" that he was a native of the parish.] "MR."—Under 'The Office Window' in The Daily Chronicle of the 17th inst., a correspondent raises the question, " When does a 'Mr.' cease to be a 'Mr.'?" I think the rule of The Athenaeum is a good one, which confines the prefix to living people. A. N. Q. WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. LIVERPOOL PRINTED BOOKS : DR. HOOD.— Can any of your Liverpool or other readers throw light on the authorship of two books printed at Liverpool " by James Smith for the author" in 1822* The first is entitled ' Creation : a Poem,' by the author of ' Primum Mobile,' «fec. The preface is dated August, 1822, and states, "A few copies only of the following Poem are printed for the author's private use and circulation." What was the size of the edition ? The poem is in two sections, Celestial' (books L, ii., and iii.) and 'Ter- restrial ' (books iv., v., and vi.). It contains 240 pages, and bears evidence that the author was acquainted with Killarney and Bantry Bay. My copy is bound in boards, with a paper label, ' Creation, a Poem,' on the back. The author implies that, if called for, another