The book
Bennett wrote this in 1908 for the person who has accepted that the day belongs to the office. The twenty-four hours are the one allowance issued equally, and they cannot be saved or borrowed. The hours on either side of work are not the leftovers. They are the day.
Twelve short chapters. The prescription is smaller than the title. Not a reorganised life. A modest block, three evenings a week, defended, spent on something that costs effort. Under that, the skill of holding attention on one thing while it tries to wander.
He answers, in the preface, the correspondent who loves the work and comes home spent. He concedes it, then says the balance is still wrong if the job takes everything. He is blunt about the failure mode: the person who schedules every hour collapses in a fortnight and decides the idea was foolish. Attempt less, and keep it.
It will not let you write a seven-evening plan and call it the chapter. The session is which evenings, what length you have kept before, what the block is for, and what you will call a reason when it slips.
The workbook is the block you named. Next week starts there, not at the preface.
It will not find you three free evenings you do not have. If Tuesday is gone, Tuesday is gone. He already allowed for that.
Claim it on the book page. How to Live on 24 Hours a Day.