In this jumble of old books and sheet music, William Michael Harnett illustrates moral and immoral behavior through careful literary juxtapositions. Most provocative is a pairing of Dante’s Divine Comedy, whose saintly Beatrice guides the search for salvation, with the scandalous Juliette, the Marquis de Sade’s lustful book about a young woman’s sexual improprieties. Such moralizing reflected an American preoccupation with social codes and conduct. Harnett animates the display with objects perched in unstable positions: the whole arrangement appears ready to collapse like a house of cards.