7 MARCH 1952, Page 19

Scots Law

SIR,—Dr. Duncan's reference to Scots law in his interesting article this week prompts me to suggest that it would have been easier for Englishmen—and others—to take the Scots legal system seriously if Scotland had produced a Geldart or a Jenks to write attractively about it. I believe it was not until lectures given to Polish forces in 1941 were published in 1944 that any short book on Scots law became generally