from experience if possible, I fear I shall be found
incorrigible on the points on which your correspondent has so kindly
endeavoured to enlighten me.

GEO. SHADBOLT.

_To introduce Clouds_ (Vol. viii., p. 451.) as desired by your
correspondent [Greek: S]., the negative must be treated in the sky by
solution of cyanide of potassium laid on in the form desired with a camel's
hair pencil. This discharges a portion of the reduced silver, and allows
the light to penetrate; but great care is required to stop the action by
well washing in water before the process has gone too far. White clouds are
produced by painting them in with a black pigment mixed in size.

GEO. SHADBOLT.

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Replies to Minor Queries.

_Death of Edward II._ (Vol. viii., p. 387.).--P. C. S. S. has noticed with
considerable surprise the very strange assertion of MR. C. M. INGLEBY with
reference to the murder of Edward II. at Berkeley Castle, viz. that "Echard
and Rapin are silent, both as to the event and the locality." If MR.
INGLEBY will again refer to Echard (vol. i. p. 341., edit. 1718) and to
Rapin (vol. iii. p. 147., edit. 1749), he will perceive that the two
historians record "both the event and the locality."

MR. INGLEBY did not perhaps consider that the transaction in question took
place during the reign of Edward III.; and is, therefore, not to be sought
for at the close of that of Edward _II._ (where probably MR. C. M. INGLEBY
looked for it), but among the occurrences in the time of Edward _III._ MR.
C. M. INGLEBY will assuredly find it there, not only in Echard and Rapin,
but in every other History of England since the date of the "event."

P. C. S. S.

_Luther no Iconoclast_ (Vol. viii., p. 335.).--An occasional contributor
wishes the Editor to note down this Query. What could have led your
correspondent J. G. FITCH to use so peculiarly inappropriate a synonym for
Martin Luther as "the great Iconoclast?" Has he any historical evidence for
Luther's breaking a single image?

It is not to defend Luther, but to point out a defect in his teaching, as
it is regarded by the adherents of other Protestant churches, that Dr.
Maclaine has said, in his note on Book IV. ch. i. Sec. 18. of Mosheim:

"It is evident, from several passages in the writings of Luther, that
he was by no means averse to the use of images, but that, on the
contrary, he looked upon them as adapted to excite and anima