That cover design I posted a couple of weeks ago just never seemed quite right. I did a little more looking around and found some photos of an old globe.

I think I may have had a globe much like it when I was a kid. My parents gave me a Replogle globe for Christmas one year. That name always seemed so strange to me: Replogle. Almost, but not nearly, a rhyme with “global.” I remember that it came with a little booklet describing experiments one could perform with a globe. With a flashlight and a rubber ball, for example, a proud globe owner could simulate a solar eclipse.

But I digress.

Here’s my design-of-the-moment for The New World and the Old:

Don’t fall too much in love with it; by this time next week, I’m sure I’ll hate it.