13 JULY 1951, Page 24

A Brace of Serjeants

Sta.—The picture painted by Harold Nicolson in Marginal Comment of a stream of men learned in the law which he watched wind its way to lunch is a charming one. But when he mentions that he saw the Serjeants passing, can it be that he watched them with his inner eye and looked upon the ghosts of ages past ? Or can it be that he saw that great figure, the last of the Irish Serjeants, having strayed into the alien Inner, return again in search of his beloved Middle ? For in what Inns in England can a brace of Serjeants be found 7—Yours faithfully,