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Prince of Players: Edwin Booth (1953)
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    On the Victorian Boards (Review)
    William W. Appleton
    Prince of Players: Edwin Booth, by Eleanor Ruggles
    1. Prince of Players: Edwin Booth by Eleanor Ruggles
    The Saturday Review, February 28, 1953, p. 14
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    New Books in Brief (6 Reviews)
    No Name in the Street, by Kay Cicellis
    1. No Name in the Street by Kay Cicellis
    2. The Stones of the House by Theodore Morrison
    3. Old Pines, and Other Stories by James Boyd
    4. Water by Thomson King
    5. Prince of Players: Edwin Booth by Eleanor Ruggles
    6. Baudelaire on Poe: Critical Papers by Charles Baudelaire
    The Nation, February 28, 1953, p. 191
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    Atlantic Bookshelf (7 Reviews)
    Charles J. Rolo
    Reader's Choice
    1. Five Gentlemen of Japan by Frank Gibney
    2. Prince of Players: Edwin Booth by Eleanor Ruggles
    3. The Singular Preference by Peter Quennell
    4. Such, Such Were the Joys, and Other Essays by George Orwell
    5. The Little Emperors by Alfred Duggan
    6. A Brighter Sun by Samuel Selvon
    7. Prince Bart by Jay Richard Kennedy
    The Atlantic Monthly, March 1953, pp. 80-83
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    The Critics Separate Wheat from Chaff (9 Reviews)
    Raymond Walters, Jr.
    Who Speaks for Man?, by Norman Cousins
    1. Who Speaks for Man? by Norman Cousins
    2. Annapurna by Maurice Herzog
    3. The World and the West by Arnold J. Toynbee
    4. The Man Whistler by Hesketh Pearson
    5. Prince of Players: Edwin Booth by Eleanor Ruggles
    6. Willa Cather: A Critical Biography by E.K. Brown and Leon Edel
    7. A Good Man by Jefferson Young
    8. Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage by Ruth Painter Randall
    9. My Host the World by George Santayana
    The Saturday Review, April 11, 1953, pp. 24-25
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    Brief Comments (19 Reviews)
    Nineteen outstanding books of the previous quarter
    1. My Host the World by George Santayana
    2. Education and Liberty by James Bryant Conant
    3. Always the Young Strangers by Carl Sandburg
    4. The World and the West by Arnold J. Toynbee
    5. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln by Roy P. Basler, Mario Dolores Pratt, and Lloyd A. Dunlap, ...
    6. The Letters of Samuel Johnson by R.W. Chapman and Samuel Johnson
    7. The Writer in America by Van Wyck Brooks
    8. Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph by Edgar Johnson
    9. The Man Whistler by Hesketh Pearson
    10. Prince of Players: Edwin Booth by Eleanor Ruggles
    11. The Mormon Village by Lowry Nelson
    12. The Silent World by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Frederic Dumas
    13. The Wonderful World of Insects by Albro Gaul
    14. Possums by Carl Hartman
    15. Spring Birth, and Other Poems by Mark Van Doren
    16. Willa Cather: A Critical Biography by E.K. Brown and Leon Edel
    17. A Good Man by Jefferson Young
    18. The Plantation by Ovid Williams Pierce
    19. The Stones of the House by Theodore Morrison
    The American Scholar, Summer 1953, pp. 378-381
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    New Books (20 Reviews)
    Gilbert Highet
    African Sculpture Speaks, by Ladislas Segy
    1. African Sculpture Speaks by Ladislas Segy
    2. African Folktales and Sculpture by Paul Radin, Elinore Marvel, and James Johnson Sweeney, ...
    3. The Italian Painters of the Renaissance by Bernard Berenson
    4. The Letters of Samuel Johnson by R.W. Chapman and Samuel Johnson
    5. The Best Butter by Jean Dutourd
    6. The Stones of the House by Theodore Morrison
    7. Half a Dollar Is Better Than None by Nicholas Diminno
    8. Neely by Walter Karig
    9. When the Gods Are Silent by Mikhail Soloviev
    10. Empress of Byzantium by Helen A. Mahler
    11. Movable Feasts by Arnold Palmer
    12. Illustrated English Social History by G.M. Trevelyan
    13. Acton's Political Philosophy by George E. Fasnacht
    14. Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics by Gertrude Himmelfarb
    15. Prince of Players: Edwin Booth by Eleanor Ruggles
    16. The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    17. Spring in Spain by MacKinley Helm
    18. Rome and a Villa by Eleanor Clark
    19. The Singular Preference by Peter Quennell
    20. Jan at the Blue Fox by Ronald F.H. Duncan
    The Harpers Monthly, March 1953, pp. 99-105