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Shandy exemplifies the love of wisdom; more precisely, he is the incarnation of the sentimentalism of the eighteenth Leslie Stephen, Hours in a Library, III. 350. century. To can tins (tō-kän-tēnz'). [So called from an Toledo canton of St. Gall, Switzerland, traversed by the Thur. It was a medieval countship. The most notable of the so-called Toggenburg wars was that of 1712, caused by the oppre ive action of the Abbot of St. Gall: Bern and Zurich supported Toggenburg succe fully against the Catholic forces of Lucerne, the Forest Cantons, etc. To go land (to'gō-land). A German protectorate on the Slave Coast of western Africa, east Indian tribe.] An important river of central and of the Gold Coast, about long. 1° 20′ E. Capi northern Brazil. It rises in the state of Goyaz, flows Rorthward and reaches the Atlantic through the Para River. The latter may be regarded as its estuary, though it also receives a large amount of water from the Amazon. The most important affluent of the To can tins is the Araguaya. Navigation is interrupted by a series of rapids beginning about 200 miles above Pará: beyond these both the To can tins and the Araguaya are navigable for many hun dred miles. Length (from Pará), about 1,700 miles; with the Araguaya, nearly 1,900 miles. Tocqueville (tok'vil; F. pron.tok-vēl'), Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de. Born at Paris, July 29, 1805: died at Cannes, April 16, 1859. A celebrated French statesman and writer. His studies, begun at Metz, were completed by a course in law at Paris. He took his final degree in 1826, and spent then a year or more traveling in Italy and Sicily. On his return to France he occupied a post in the law-court of Versailles. But jurisprudence was not altogether suited to his tastes, and April 2, 1831, he left France for the United States, whither he was sent by his government for the purpose of studying the penitentiary system. He did not limit himself, however, to this special field, but extended his observations also to the social and political institutions and customs of the new country. The following year he published in France, together with his friend and travel ing companion, M. de Beaumont, the result of their official investigations, under the title "Du système pénitentiaire aux États-Unis et de son application en France." This important work attracted much attention, and was crowned by the French Academy. From the notes that he had taken in a private capacity while on his visit to the United States, he wrote his masterpiece, "Démocratie en Amérique" (1835-40). Its succe secured his admi ion to the French Academy (Dec. 23, 1841). After several years of public life (1839-51), retired in order to de vote his entire time to travel and writing. Besides the works already mentioned, he wrote a number of pamphlets on various subjects, also an "His to ire philosophique du règne de Louis XV." (1846), and the first volume of the work left unfinished at his death, "L'Ancien régime et la révolution" (1856). A paper entitled "État social et island of the British West Indies, northeast of Trinidad. Capital, Scar borough. Its northern point is in lat. 11° 21' N., long. 60° 31′ W. The surface is moun tainous. It was seen by Columbus in 1498, and was settled by the Dutch in 1654, but pa ed into the hands of the French and eventually (1763) of the English. In 1889 it was annexed to the colony of Trinidad. Length, 26 miles. Area, 114 square miles. Population (1892), 19,594. Tobias (to-bias). [Heb., God is good.] The son of Tobit, and a character in the Book of Tobit. Tobias, Family of, and the Angel. A fine painting by Rembrandt, in the Louvre, Paris. Tobikhar (tō-bik-här'). A division of North American Indians, comprising a number of tribes which formerly lived about the mi ions of San Gabriel, San Luis Rey, San Juan Capistrano, San Fernando, Los Angeles, and San Bernard i no, in southern California. The name, signifying 'residents, settlers, 'belongs strictly to the former inhabitants of San Gabriel and Los Angeles, but is now used to designate also the entire group of tribes which form the southwestern or coast division of the Shoshonean stock. They have been gradually dispo e ed of their lands, and are now mostly under the Mi ion agency, California, being cla ed, with natives of other tribes of totally distinct stocks, as "Mi ion Indians." Number, about 2,200. See Shoshonean. Tobit (to'bit), Book of. A romance, one of the apocryphal books of the Old Testament: so called from the name of its leading character. Tobitschau (tō'bit-shou). A town in Moravia, Austria-Hungary, situated on the March 12 miles south of Olmütz. Here, July 15, 1866, a Pru ian brigade defeated an Austrian force. Population (1890), commune, 2,632. Tobol (to-bol'). A river in western Siberia. It rises on the slopes of the Urals, and joins the Irtish near Tobolsk. Length, about 600 miles. It is navigable for a large part of its course.