Lord Elgin's mistake leads to renewal of the war. Fall of the Peiho forts and flight of the Court. The war with France. Mr. Seward and Anson Burlingame. War ended through the agency of Sir Robert Hart. War with Japan. Perry at Tokio (Yeddo); overturn of the Shogans. Formosa ceded to Japan. China follows Japan and throws off trammels of antiquated usage. War with the world. The Boxer rising; menace to the Peking legations. Prince Ching and Viceroy Li arrange terms of peace. Li's death; patriot, and patron of educational reform. DAVID LIVINGSTONE. AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT. BY CYRUS C. ADAMS. Difficulties of exploration in the "Dark Continent" Livingstone's belief that "there was good in Africa," and that it was worth reclaiming. His early journeyings kindled the great African movement. Youthful career and studies, marriage, etc. Contact with the natives; wins his way by kindness. Sublime faith in the future of Africa. Progress in the heart of the continent since his day. Interest of his second and third journeyings (1853-56). Visits to Britain, reception, and personal characteristics. Later discoveries and journeyings (1858-1864, 1866-1873). Death at Chitambo (Ilala) Lake Bangweolo, May 1, 1873. General accuracy of his geographical records; his work, as a whole, stands the test of time. Downfall of the African slave-trade, the "open sore of the world". Remarkable achievements of later explorers and surveyors. The work of Burton, Junker, Speke, and Stanley. Father Schynse's chart. Surveys of Commander Whitehouse. Missionary maps of the Congo Free State and basin. Other areas besides tropical Africa made known and opened up. Pygmy tribes and cannibalism in the Congo basin. Human sacrifices now prohibited and punishable with death. Railway and steamboat development, and partition of the continent. South Africa: the gold and diamond mines and natural resources. Future philanthropic work. SIR AUSTEN HENRY LAYARD. MODERN ARCHAEOLOGY. BY WILLIAM HAYES WARD, D.D., LL/D. Overthrow of Nineveh and destruction of the Assyrian Empire. Kingdoms and empires extant and buried before the era of Hebrew and Greek history. Bonaparte in Egypt, and the impulse he gave to French archaeology. Champollion and his deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions. Paul Émile Botta and his discoveries in Assyria. His excavations of King Sargon's palace at Khorsabad. Layard begins his excavations and discoveries at Nineveh. Sir Stratford Canning's (Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe) gift to the British Museum of the marbles of Halicarnassus. Layard's published researches, "Nineveh and its Remains," and "Babylon and Nineveh". His work, "The Monuments of Nineveh" (1849-53). Obelisk and monoliths of Shalmaneser II., King of Assyria, discovered by Layard at Nimroud. George Smith and his discovery of the Babylonian account of the Deluge.