The Mystic Will

Charles Godfrey Leland

Charles Godfrey Leland spent a lifetime collecting folklore, then turned inward and wrote a method for strengthening the will itself. Through resolve and suggestion practiced before sleep, he promised, anyone could reshape habit, memory, and attention. Published near the end of his remarkable life, it sits at the crossroads of early psychology and pure Victorian optimism. Self-improvement's eccentric great-uncle, well worth meeting.