Notable South Australians/Epilogue
EPILOGUE.
AT last! At last this work is completed, it is hoped, to the satisfaction of all interested. For two years the author has been engaged in its compilation, and the difficulties which have beset his path whilst endeavouring to procure information were not trivial. Notwithstanding that the biographies of many old colonists figure in its pages, there are others equally important of whose history it was impossible to obtain any reliable accounts; hence their omission from the book. To render a work of this character complete it is absolutely necessary that each year a similar volume with additions or alterations should be issued. It is needless to write eulogistic "In Memoriams" over the dead, yet this is what biographers generally are expected to do; better far to "speak a good word for the living," especially the old colonists, many of whom need our sympathies here. The Old Colonists Association is never heard of now. Why? In Victoria a similar institution is a great success, and there is no reason, that it should lack support in South Australia.