MELINCOURT OR SIR ORAN HAUT-TON _Melincourt_ is usually considered the least interesting of Peacock’s novels; and in the strictly comparative sense—that is to say that it is the least interesting of a group, every one of which has peculiar and exceptional interest—the statement is no doubt true. The defects of the book are very obvious, and exceedingly easy to account for. _Headlong Hall_ had been very popular; and it was only in the course of nature that the author should repeat his successful experiment. But _Headlong Hall_ had been by no means free from faults; and it certainly was not out of the course of nature that they sho…
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