The Tales of a Grandfather

Tales of a Grandfather, The,
a history of Scotland from the Roman occupation to the close of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, by Sir W. Scott , published in 1827 – 9 . A later series ( 1831 ) deals with the history of France. They were written for Scott's first grandchild, John Hugh Lockhart , who died in 1831 , aged 10.