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PEACOCK i
I
IN the first place, were these plays worth
publishing
admit that they were. Presumably the possessors
of Messrs. Dent's pretty edition, or of
? With some hesitation we will
any edition for that matter, will be glad to
set this small volume beside the others and
thus become owners of the complete prose
works of an English classic. For Peacock is a
classic otherwise ;
they might well have been
allowed to acquire that portentous dignity
which grows like moss on ancient and unprinted
MSS. in the British Museum. Here
and there, in the farces, one may discover
examples of truly " Peacockian " wit and style,
but these rare gems have mostly been worked
into the novels ; while the residue, which
includes a drama in blank verse, has little
if any intrinsic value. The earliest works of
Peacock a brilliant amateur to the last
1 "
The Plays of Thomas Love Peacock." Published for
the first time. Edited by A. B. Young. (David Nutt.)