Publishers usually specialise in fixed directions, just as magazine editors do.
Thus you see both the novice and the master specialise on detail before they tackle a piece of work as a whole.
But there are certain broad principles which we must all grasp, however we may specialise our studies in detail, and these I have sought to indicate, with what degree of success the reader must form his own opinion.
So here, then, is a subject ready to hand for the collector willing to specialise in a branch of ceramic study and collecting not greatly inquired into, and the way has already been pointed out by experts.
In jobbing-shops where odd volumes come in to be bound in various styles women are unsuitable, and men do the work right through; but in large publishing houses where orders run into thousands women specialise on particular processes.
So many firms specialise in both that any such grouping could only lead to confusion.
Illustration] We specialise in Light Machine Tools for use in portable workshops, such as are used in connection with aircraft.
I propose to use the term group spirit as the equivalent of the French expression, the frequent use of which in English speech and writing sufficiently justifies the attempt to specialise this compound word for psychological purposes.
But the service has since expanded so much, both in size and importance, that each squadron is made to specialise in one or two branches of work, while other specialists look after the remainder.
The Royal Naval Air Service began tospecialise in bomb raids, while the Royal Flying Corps (Military Wing) sent whatever machines it could lay hands on to join the old contemptibles in France.
They specialise extremely, for example, under such conditions as one had in Hindustan up to the coming of the present generation.
Our civilisation has grown up in a haphazard kind of way, and it has been convenient to specialise workers and employ them piecemeal.
No man can abolish his immediate self and specialise in the depths; if he attempt that, he simply turns himself into something a little less than the common man.
So the more fertile meadows of Gloucester and Somerset led these districts to specialise in the finer branches of the woollen trade.
Nottingham and Leicester were beginning to specialise in cotton and woollen hosiery, but a good deal was made round London, and generally in the woollen counties of the south.
This vast expansion of the area of effective competition is beginning to specialise industry on the basis of a world-market, which was formerly specialised on the more confined basis of a national or provincial market.
The tyrannical use these nations made of their colonies for the purpose of building up home manufactures enabled them to specialise more widely and safely in those industries to which the new methods of production were first applied.
It is right that womanhood should specialise in individuals, and be praised for doing so; just as in the Middle Ages she specialised in dignity and was praised for doing so.
It will have the old and human faults; but it is not likely to specialise in the special faults of that particular society: because the effort of the strong and successful in all ages is to keep the poor out of society.
After all, we must nowadays all be specialists, and a man has as much right tospecialise in beauty as he has to specialise in Greek Grammar.
Some againspecialise in the writings of certain great characters, such as Bonaventura, Augustine, or Erasmus.
But there are certain dealers who specialise in a definite class of books, and their catalogues are always of value, for they contain only works upon a definite subject or of a definite class.
Some of the booksellersspecialise in such works, and the older books on Freemasonry cannot be said to be of frequent occurrence in the ordinary booksellers' catalogues.
With regard to the early book-illustrators, several text-books that will be useful to those who specialise in this subject have been mentioned in the chapter dealing with the Books of the Collector.
Some collectors specialise in large-paper copies, some prefer certain editions which contain matter suppressed later.
As I have said, it is a fascinating pursuit, but unless the subject in which you specialise is a narrow one, you may be overwhelmed by the magnitude of the task.
Does the poet-collector specialise in poetry, the freemason in masonic books, the angler in works dealing only with his pastime?
He is not even quite sure what he wants to specialise on, or if he wants to specialise at all.
I am going to specialise in something when I get there.
To specialise was the dream of every School House boy.
Sorry, old cock," said Hunter, "but I specialise in stinks!
As will be seen from the article on domestic work, the graduate in chemistry has in this a promising field, while the botanist or zoologist and the geologist have the basis on which to specialise in nature-study or geography.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "specialise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
