The interior of the palace is now but a great wilderness of hewn stone. The sixteenth century treasures of art which had adorned it were all stolen or destroyed in the Revolution, the spoliation being so complete that it was stripped of even the carved wainscots, panels, doors and shutters, and the four hundred and forty enormous apartments now give only the impression of a vast and comfortless barrack. In the original arrangement of the interior all ideas of practical defense were sacrificed to produce a pleasure palace, and it was furnished with innumerable secret stairways (there are thirteen great staircases, not to mention numberless smaller ones) isolated turrets and a hundred facilities for what the gallant Viollet le Duc calls "_les intrigues secrètes de cette cour jeune et tout occupée de galanteries_." "On the whole," writes Mr. Henry James, "Chambord makes a great impression--there is a dignity in its desolation. It speaks with a muffled but audible voice of the vanished monarchy, which had been so strong, so splendid, but today has become a sort of fantastic vision. I thought, while I lingered there, of all the fine things that it takes to make up such a monarchy; and how one of them is a superfluity of mouldering empty palaces." A Change in The Brochure Series The attention of subscribers to THE BROCHURE SERIES is again called to the fact that, beginning with the Seventh Volume, January, 1901, the magazine is to be enlarged, and that the subscription price will then be increased to $1.00 a year, and the price of single copies to ten cents each. [Illustration: PLATE LXXX CHAMBORD: FROM THE WEST] LOUIS XVI. SCONCES [Illustration: FROM FONTAINEBLEAU] [Illustration: FROM VERSAILLES] [Illustration: FROM DOUAI] [Illustration: FROM FONTAINEBLEAU] [Illustration: PLATE LXXXI CHAMBORD: THE ROOFS] [Illustration: FROM FONTAINEBLEAU] [Illustration: FROM VERSAILLES] [Illustration: FROM VERSAILLES] [Illustration: FROM VERSAILLES] [Illustration: PLATE LXXXII CHAMBORD: DORMERS AND CHIMNEYS] Transcriber's Note: Italics are indicated by _underscores_. Small capitals have been rendered in full capitals. Ligatures [oe] have been converted into oe. A number of minor spelling errors have been corrected without note. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, vol. 06, No. 10, October 1900, by Various