In some important respects he showed marvellous astuteness and political sagacity,such, for instance, as in converting England from an enemy to a friend.

" Only a careful student of Homer can quite realize the diplomatic astuteness which inspired this sketch of Homeric morals.

A small body of people of extreme astuteness were to bring about the municipalisation and nationalisation first of this great system of property and then of that, in a manner so artful that the millionaires were to wake up one morning at last, and behold, they would find themselves poor men!

" Before he should clearly recall that night of violence, Freya continued her recollections with feminine astuteness....

He did not place Venice, the superb,with her pride and pomp and power and intellectual astuteness, with her faults and worldliness and her magnificent statesmanship,against the spiritual kingdom of Christ's Church on earth and declare for Venice against the Church.

There was, no doubt, an idea prevalent that the squire and the captain were in league together to cheat the creditors, and that the squire, who in these days received much undeserved credit for Machiavellian astuteness, knew more than any one else respecting his eldest son's affairs.

ESPARTERO, a celebrated Spanish general and statesman, born at Granatula; supported, against the Carlist faction, the claims of Isabella to the throne of Spain; was for his services made Duke of Vittoria, and in 1841 elected regent; compelled to abdicate, he fled to England, but afterwards returned for a time to the head of affairs; an able man, but wanting in the requisite astuteness and tact for such a post (1793-1879).

But now she has discovered that Pan-Turkish ideals have no sort of meaning in Palestine, and thus, with amazing astuteness, has provided herself with a reason for interfering, while still not giving up the policy of non-interference in Turkish affairs, for Turkey, she has discovered, has no affairs in Palestine.

Her reputation for worldly astuteness surpassed that of any other old woman in Europe, though it was, perhaps, not altogether deserved.