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Excerpt from Gryll Grange: Illustrated by F. H. Townsend, With an Introd, by George Saintsbury
In all these 'reconciliations and forgivenesses of in juries,' however, it is very important to observe that there is no mawkishness and, whatever may have been some times thought and said, there is no 'ratting' in the real sense. As must be obvious to any attentive reader of the novels, and as has been pointed out once or twice before in these introductions, Peacock had at no time been anything like an enrolled, much less a convinced, member of the Radical or any party. He may have been a Republican in his youth, though for my part I should like more trust worthy evidence for it than that of Thomas Jefferson Hogg, a very clever but a distinctly unscrupulous person. If he was - and it is not at all improbable that he had the Re publican measles, a very common disease of youth, pretty early - he certainly had never been a democrat. Even his earlier satire is double-edged; and, as must be constantly repeated and remembered, it was always his taste and his endeavour to shoot folly as it ¿ew, to attack existent and not extinct forms of popular or fashionable delusion. Such follies, whether in 1860 or since, have certainly not as a rule been of the aristocratic, monarchical, or Tory order generally.
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