Article: BOSTON'S MUSEUM TREASURES

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In conjunction with the reopening of its Evans Wing, the Museum of Fine Arts has produced "Masterpiece Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" (Abrams, $35). Its 125 color reproductions, with accompanying commentaries by the museum's curatorial staff, begin with a trecento triptych by Duccio and end with a 1973 Alice Neel portrait. In between come 500 years of masterpieces by van der Weyden, Poussin, Watteau, Turner, Courbet, Monet, Renoir, Sargent and others.

Warner Berthoff's "Literature and the Continuances of Virtue" (Princeton University Press, $29.50), addressing a contemporary ...

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