MODERN APPRAISAL OF THE NINE 269 
other less esteemed fish the books extant and known to have 
been lost are almost as countless as the smile of Ocean, how 
many volumes would an Englishman or an American—given 
the same fish-mania and the same literary facility as the 
Greeks—require to do justice to his wealth of first-class edible 
fish ? Verily the Library of Alexandria, with its room for 
400,000 volumes, would scarce suffice. 
