Johnston translated several works from Sanskrit and Russian. As an author, he devoted himself primarily to philosophical and theosophical topics, and wrote a great number and variety of articles and books, ranging from scholarly writings on scriptures to popular volumes of humor, travel, and history.
The Johnston’s article A Memory of Madame Blavatsky, which we propose to our readers today, was published in June 1891 on the Lucifer Magazine, a journal founded and published by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. The first edition was issued in September 1887 in London. The journal published articles on philosophical, theosophical, scientific and religious topics.