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Excerpt from Works on Horses and Equitation: A Bibliographical Record of Hippology
To those however engaged in any literary work of a responsible character, to students, authors, and librarians, the value of works of reference of this class is manifest and incontestable, as being in a manner the tools with which they work; To these a general subject index has long been felt to be a crying want, a want that is impossible to be supplied by any one worker.
General works like those of Watts, Kayser, Lorenz, or Brunet, wonderful as they are in their gigantic undertaking, are yet necessarily very imperfect and altogether inadequate to the requirements of the age. Had Brunet indeed con fined himself exclusively to recording the works written before the seventeenth century, it would have been more satisfactory to succeeding bibliographers, inasmuch as his researches would have acquired additional value, in pro portion to their concentration on a period now too distant to be easily retraced.
In view therefore of the utter incapability of General Bibliography to cope with the ever increasing mass of special and technical information, it becomes every day more of a necessity to index the various branches of literature separately and fully.
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