KINGSHIP AND ITS TRADE SECRETS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4011, 18 August 1915, Page 3

KINGSHIP AND ITS TRADE SECRETS.

In a chapter on “Gond'U'.t- in the Smaller Matters of Life,” Frederick the Great in his - " Confessions penned these lines : . Have you a mind to satisfy ad t-tio world at a very little cost? Tins is the secret. Hot all your subjects have leave to apply to yourself directly by writing, or in personal audience ; and. according as you admit of either ol these, answer or hear what they have to say. But this is the style you have to employ: “If what you tell me be true, will do you jiistice: hut you may also lay votir account with the zeal 1 have for punishing calumny and falsity, 1 am vonr king, F yck.- ! If they complain, m person, to yon, hear them with attention, or at least with an air that may make thnn think von have it. Let your answer especially be firm and laconic. Iwo letters, or two verbal answers, m sudi a style, will save you from the impomnitv of .many complaints, and will give 'you among your own? subjects, and more yet in foreign courts, such an air of simplicity, and of vending into particulars, as m pm'd’ of character makes the fortune kings. " ;