The complete online text of On Books and the Housing of Them by William Ewart Gladstone.

William Ewart Gladstone's enduring fame arises from his long and distinguished career in politics. He was prime minister four times (1868-1874; 1880-1885; 1886; and 1892-1894), and he, more than any other person, was responsible for the shaping of the la...

"A book collector ought as I conceive," Gladstone wrote to Bernard Quaritch on 9 September 1896, "to possess the following six qualifications: appetite, leisure, wealth, knowledge, discrimination, and perseverance. Of these I have only had two, the first...

The English statesman William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) led the Liberal party and served as prime minister. His strong religious sense was an integral part of his political and social policies. William Gladstone was born in Liverpool on Dec. 29, 1809....

NEWTON -- Books do furnish a room, as English novelist Anthony Powell observed in a novel of that title. And never was that more true than in the small Victorian house that Kenneth Gloss and Joyce Kosofsky are rescuing from a previous owner's taste...

Mark Jerome Walters, Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them (Washington, D.C.: Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2003). We are not so much victims of nature as of our own actions. And these we have the power to change.--Mark Jerome Walters, at...