“It is on the whole well proportioned. If this history were condensed into a single volume it might serve a useful purpose. Its faults would appear less glaring. But for the general reader it is too long and costly, and as an accurately conceived and scholarly account of Cuba it is simply a waste of good paper such as the trade at this moment can ill afford.” C. H. Haring
− + N Y Evening Post p5 O 30 ’20 1550w
“Dr Johnson has looked at the facts, it may be said, from a Cuban point of view, and at the same time with a sense of proportion that is continental and international. He has produced not merely a manifesto of Cuban patriotism, nor on the other hand, a coldly detached compilation of facts, but a true national record. His work is not only a valuable archive or work of reference, but also a treatise of vital interest and importance to the people of this country.”
+ No Am 212:279 Ag ’20 2800w
“A well-written history.”
+ R of Rs 62:446 O ’20 20w
JOHNSTON, SIR HARRY HAMILTON. Mrs Warren’s daughter; a story of the woman’s movement. *$2 Macmillan
20–7923
“In his first novel, ‘The Gay-Dombeys,’ Sir Harry Johnston undertook to show us the second generation, the descendants of Walter Gay and Florence Dombey. Now he comes forward with ‘Mrs Warren’s daughter,’ taking up the history of Vivie Warren and of her mother at the point where George Bernard Shaw left it. When the novel begins, Vivie and her friend Honoria Fraser compose the firm of ‘Fraser & Warren, consultant actuaries and accountants.’ They are doing very well, but find themselves perpetually hampered by the regulations and laws forbidding women admission to various professions. In a spirit of revolt against these man-made restrictions, Vivie decides to cut her hair, don masculine apparel and become David Vavasour Williams.... In 1910 she finally drops Mr David Vavasour Williams and begins to take an extremely active part in the militant suffragist movement.... Mrs Warren had taken up her residence in Brussels, and that was how it came about that when Vivie was released from prison during the first days of the world war she went straight to Belgium to join her mother. The description of the experiences of these two women especially during the months of von Bissing’s ‘terror’ is very interesting and well done.”—N Y Times