CHAPTER XI

The Stamp Book--A Passing Taste--Dr Diamond again--An Establishment in the Strand--My Partiality for Lounging-- One of My Haunts and Its Other Visitors--Our Entertainer Himself--His Principals Abroad--The _Cinque Cento_ Medal-- Canon Greenwell--Mr Montagu--Story of a Dutch Priest--My Experience of Pictures--The Stray Portrait recovered after Many Years--The Two Wilson Landscapes--Sir Joshua's Portrait of Richard Burke--Hazlitt's Likeness of Lamb--The Picture Market and Some of Its Incidence--Story of a Painting--Plate--The Rat-tailed Spoon--Dr Diamond smitten-- The Hogarth Salver--The Edmund Bury Godfrey and Blacksmiths' Cups--Irish Plate--Danger of Repairing or Cleaning Old Silver--The City Companies' Plate, 215