25 NOVEMBER 1922, Page 23

• THE UNSPEAKABLE GENTLEMAN. By J. P. Marquand. (Hodder and

Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—The same kind of glamour which always attaches to the typical highway- man of fiction surrounds this portrait of an American trader, self-outlawed on account of a despicable fraud perpetrated against him by his brother-in-law. The story itself, though vivid enough and very much in the manner of its time-1805 —has no particular depth or subtlety. Its chief claim to be read lies in the author's admirable economy in the matter of emotion and word.