ABSTRACT
Robert Bridges (r8s8-I94I), literary critic of the comic weekly, Life, usually signed his columns 'Droch'. Although this review, entitled 'Mark Twain's Blood-Curdling Humor', is unsigned, 'Droch' commented favourably a few weeks later on the Concord Library Committee's action of removing Huckleberry Fi1111 from the library in Life (9 April r885), v, 202. Bridges was on the staff of the New York Eve11i11g Post (r88r-7) and later served as assistant editor (r887-1914) and editor (1914-30) of Scribner's Magaziue. He was a literary adviser and director of Charles Scribner's Sons until 1939.
