My Novel, or Varieties in English Life

My Novel, or Varieties in English Life by Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Scene, the hall in UNCLE ROLAND'S tower; time, night; season, winter. MR. CAXTON is seated before a great geographical globe, which he is turning round leisurely, and 'for his own recreation, as, according to Sir Thomas Browne, a philosopher should turn round the orb of which that globe professes to be the representation and effigie...