Produced by Afra Ullah and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) BIDWELL'S TRAVELS. FROM Wall Street To London Prison _Fifteen Years in Solitude._ FREED A HUMAN WRECK, A WONDERFUL SURVIVAL AND A MORE WONDERFUL RISE IN THE WORLD. TO-DAY HE HAS A NATIONAL REPUTATION AS A WRITER, SPEAKER AND IS CONSIDERED AN AUTHORITY ON ALL SOCIAL PROBLEMS. HE WAS TRIED AT THE OLD BAILEY AND SENTENCED FOR LIFE. CHARGED WITH THE L1,000,000 FORGERY ON THE BANK OF ENGLAND. THIS STORY SHOWS THAT THE EVENTS OF HIS LIFE SURPASS THE IMAGINATIONS OF OUR FAMOUS NOVELISTS, ITS THRILLING SCENES, HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPES AND MARVELOUS ADVENTURES ARE NOT A RECORD OF CRIME, BUT ARE PROOFS OF THAT _IN THE WORLD OF WRONGDOING SUCCESS IS FAILURE._ 490 Pages. 80 Graphic Illustrations. Copyrighted 1897 by BIDWELL PUBLISHING COMPANY, HARTFORD, CONN. Editorial New York Herald. _Referring to a Whole Page._ "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 to-day 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 employees 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." A Niece of Oliver Wendell Holmes