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How the Empire Grows
Nevinson, Henry W. | February 13, 1924 issue

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This article focuses on the book "The Story of My Life," by Sir G. Harry H. Johnston. Whenever the author met Sir Harry Johnston, either at the Royal Geographical Society, or at public dinners, or on the platform speaking for woman suffrage, or in his own sequestered and ancient home in Sussex, his very appearance has filled the author with astonishment. Now that he is sixty-six, he has given the story of his life in this volume of 520 pages, and it must have taken him all his time to compress it even within those spacious limits. His brilliantly painted pictures of African animals and birds have astonished me almost as much as the contradiction between his own appearance and his real greatness.

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STORY of My Life, The (Book); JOHNSTON, G. Harry H.; BIOGRAPHY; PAINTING; BOOKS; GEOGRAPHY -- Societies, etc.
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