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January 27, 1870 issue

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This article presents information regarding the simultaneous undertaking in New York City and in Boston, Massachusetts of similar projects for museums of the Fine Arts. In New York, everything is vague, undetermined, undefined. A few persons may know what they would have the museum be, what collections are of the first importance, and which are the most practicable and within reach; but these few persons have hardly compared notes. The greatest things are possible; total failure and a speedy abandonment of the whole project is possible. But, in Boston, a tangible and comprehensible scheme is on foot, in the hands of persons who know what they mean to have, and who control funds enough to ensure at least a partial success.

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