The New International Encyclopædia/Bridges, Robert (American author)

BRIDGES, Robert (1858—). An American editor and author. He was born at Shippensburg, Pa., July 13, 1858. After graduating at Princeton, he became connected with the New York Evening Post, and in 1887 was made assistant editor of Scribner's Magazine. He is best known for the sprightly reviews which for many years he contributed to Life over the signature ‘Droch.’ He is also the author of poems and of two prose volumes: Overheard in Arcady (1894) and Suppressed Chapters and Other Bookishness (1895). His poems were collected in 1902 under the title Bramble Brae.