nathaniel hawthorne's art of writing marks a specific point in the history of american literature. the revolution brought with it libertine outcomes from adherence to strict puritanical creeds of life. a little later, romanticism intensified this break even further by glorifying the individuality of the author and his role in creating a novel american voice. writing within such context, on...

This paper shows that Appel-style garbage collectors often make suboptimal decisions both in terms of when and how to collect. We argue that garbage collection should be done when the amount of live bytes is low (in order to minimize the collection cost) and when the amount of dead objects is high (in order to maximize the available heap size after collection). In addition, we observe that Appe...

This is an excellent little guide to sight testing by Dr. S. K. G-anguly, Assistant at the Eye Infirmary of the Medical College, Calcutta. It is a very practical little book?concise, correct, and clear. Each section or chapter is devoted to description with methods of procedure and illustrative examples. The difficult subject of astigmatism is clearly explained, and the methods for correction d...