Persons with much hair or down upon their arms and hands, will at some future period enjoy great wealth; or as the common expression has it, "are born to be rich." HENRY KERSLEY. Corp. Chris. Hall, Maidstone. _A Rainbow in the Morning, &c._--"Mr. THOMS" (No. 26, p. 413.) says that he believes no one has remarked the philosophy of this proverbial rhyme. Sir Humphry Davy, however, points it out in his _Salmonia_. * * * * * ERROR IN JOHNSON'S LIFE OF SELDEN. In Johnson's (Geo. W.) _Memoirs of John Selden_, London, 1635, 8vo. pp. 128, 129, is a notice of Dr. Sibthorpe's celebrated Sermon preached at Northampton, and printed in 1627 with the title of _Apostolike Obedience_. After stating the difficult experienced in obtaining the necessary sanction for its publication, owing to Abp. Abbot refusing the requisite _imprimatur_, the author says that ultimately the licence was "_signed by Land himself_, and published under the title of _Apostolical Obedience_." A reference at the foot of the page to "Rushworth, p. 444," leads me to conclude that it is on his authority Mr. Johnson has made this statement; but not having access to the "Historical Collections," I am unable to examine. At any rate, Heylin, in his _Cyprianus Anglicus_, Lond., 1671 fol. p. 159., may be understood to imply the correctness of the assertion. A copy of this now rare sermon before me {452} proves, however, that the statement is incorrect. At the back of the title is as follows:-- "I have read over this sermon upon _Rom._ xiii. 7., preached at _Northampton_, at the assises for the county, _Feb._ 22, 1626, by _Robert Synthorpe_, Doctor of Divinity, Vicar of Brackley, and I doe approve it as a sermon learnedly and discreetly preached, and agreeable to the _ancient Doctrine_ of the _Primitive Church_, both for _Faith_ and _good manners_, and to the _Doctrine established_ in the _Church of England_, and, therefore, under my hand I give authority for the printing of it, May 8. 1627." GEO. LONDON. It was therefore Bishop _Mountague_, and not _Laud_, who licensed the sermon. JOHN. J. DREDGE. * * * * * POPE AND PETRONIUS.