Excerpt from Bidwell's Travels: From Wall Street to London Prison, Fifteen Years in Solitude 80 Graphic Illustrations "If an American dramatist or novelist had taken for the ground work of a play or work of fiction the story of the Bidwell family today related on another page of the Herald, all European critics would have told him that the story was too 'American, ' too vast in its outlines, too high in its colors, too merely 'big' in fact. "The story has its lesson. The play is not a mere spectacle. The lesson is that in the doing and undoing of wrong the Bidwell family expended enough ability and energy to stock a good many reigning European families for generations. "Let the Comedie Humaine write itself and it will outwrite Balzac." Hon. Lyman J. Gage Having read the Bidwell book I believe it will benefit every one to read this marvellous history of human experience. Aside from its dramatic interest there are great moral lessons involved of especial value to young men and employes in positions of trust. Therefore, I recommend this book as unique and a valuable acquisition for home and office. From Chas. M. Stead, Union League club, New York. "Dear Sir - I read your book with a good deal of interest, and would like to change it for a higher-priced binding if you have one. The Worcester Spy. "Mr, Bidwell's book has been compared with Dumas' famous 'Monte Christo.' The extraordinary character of its adventures, indeed, would render it dramatic and powerful as fiction; as human truth, it is simply overwhelming. No one can read this book unmoved. From every conceivable standpoint, physiological, sociological, and literary, it is a marvel." Philip W. Moen. Mr. Moen, of Washburn & Moen, Worcester, Mass., writes: "I have read Mr. George Bidwell's book with the deepest interest. It is a book that deserves to be widely read, and I am very glad to recommend it." 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.