rn pillars have been
placed under the long front portico, they are being replaced by the old
_portal_ type of pillar--the fluted capital across the main column
supporting the roof beams. This type of _portal_ has come in such favor
in New Mexico that it is being embodied in modern houses for arcades,
porches and gardens.

The main entrance of the Palace is square in the center. You pass into
what must have been the ancient reception room leading to an audience
chamber on the left. What amazes you is the enormous thickness of these
adobe walls. Each window casement is wider than a bench; and an open
door laid back is not wider than the thickness of the wall. To-day the
reception hall and, indeed, the rooms of the center Palace present some
of the finest mural paintings in America. These have been placed on the
walls by the Archaeological School of America which with the Historical
Society occupies the main portions of the old building. You see drawings
of the coming of the first Spanish caravels, of Coronado, of Don Diego
de Vargas, who was the Frontenac of the Southwest, reconquering the
provinces in 1680-94, about the same time that the great Frontenac was
playing his part in French Canada. There are pictures, too, of the
caravans crossing the plains, of the coming of American occupation, of
the Moki and Hopi and Zuni pueblos, of the Missions of which only ruins
to-day mark the sites in the Jemez, at Sandia, and away out in the
Desert of Abo.

To the left of the reception room is an excellent art gallery of
Southwestern subjects. Here, artists of the growing Southwestern School
send their work for exhibition and sale. It is significant that within
the last few years prices have gone up from a few dollars to hundreds
and thousands. Nausbaum's photographic work of the modern Indian is one
of the striking features of the Palace. Of course, there are pictures by
Curtis and Burbank and Sharpe and others of the Southwestern School; but
perhaps the most interesting rooms to the newcomer, to the visitor, who
doesn't know that we have an ancient America, are those where the mural
drawings are devoted to the cave dwellers and prehistoric races. These
were done by Carl Lotave of Paris out on the ground of the ancient
races. In conception and execution, they are among the finest murals in
America.

Long ago, the Governor's Palace had twin towers and a chapel. Bells in
the old Spanish churches were not tolled. They were struck g