23 NOVEMBER 1889, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

'HIE BRAZILIAN REVOLUTION. T HE Empire of Brazil has been withdrawn, like a con- demned play. Nothing at once so grandiose and so grotesque has occurred in politics in our time.......

Mr. John Morley's Idealism.

M R. JOHN MORLEY explained to the Eighty Club on Tuesday night his difficulties in classing himself. He did not always know, he said, what to call himself. Some people calledhim......