Owlivia

William Warde Fowler was a true polymath; although his early studies focused on natural history, he became a well-known authority on the his…

Two travellers, the writer of this book, and an artist friend who is the companion of his ramble, explored Cornwall together, on foot in the…

… [In] its pages I have attempted in a vague and personal way, in a set of mental pictures rather than in a series of deductions, to state t…

From the author’s introduction: "Blake’s life of Blake … would have been full of symbolic wild beasts and naked women, of monstrous cl…

Few words are needed in sending this little book out into the world. It is the fifth of a series of Manuals designed to meet the public dema…

I write only for the larger class which, repelled by the formidable appearance of more elaborate works on the subject, would yet like to kno…

This mystery of the unconscious man, far deeper than any mystery of the conscious one, existing as it does in all men, existed peculiarly in…

"When two friends and myself resolved, in the summer of 1868, to absent ourselves for a year from home, for the purpose of visiting [th…