Babel1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day hell enroll in Oxford Universitys prestigious Royal Institute of Translationalso known as Babel. The tower and its students are the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver workingthe art of manifesting the meaning lost in