Excerpt from Social Life and Manners in Australia: Being the Notes of Eight Years Experience Shakspeare says, f' A good play needs no epilogue. Now, dear reader, I do not mean to say that this little unpretending book is so good that it needs no preface; but I do think it is quite necessary to explain my reasons for publishing some selections from a diary written during my stay in Victoria. It was as much to please those who are dear to me, as my own desire to place before such as are about to emigrate a true picture of the colony which has been my home for many years, and which I do not think is sufficiently appreciated in the mother country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.