Bridges, Robert
editor, author, was born July 13, 1858, in Shippensburgh, Pa. He graduated from the Princeton college in 1879. In 1881 he was connected with the New York Evening Post; in 1887 became one of the editors of Scribner's Magazine; and since 1873 has been literary critic of New York Life. He is the author of Overheard in Arcady, and Suppressed Chapters; and Other Bookishness. • BRIDGES, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 27, 1802, in Colchester, Conn. For seven years he was deputy attorney-general of the state for Lehigh county. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1848 to 1849, and from 1853 to 1855; and was again a representative in the fortyfifth congress. He died Jan. 14, 1884, in Allentown, Pa.
BRIDGMAN, FREDERICK ARTHUR, painter, was born Nov. 10, 1847, in Tuskegee, Ala. In 1890 he opened a studio in Paris for the instruction of women students. His best known works are Funeral of a Mummy; The American Circus in Brittany; Bringing in the Maize; Pastimes of an Assyrian King; and Procession of the Bull Apis.