Many Inventions
# Many Inventions

Many Inventions (published 1893) is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Twelve of the 14 stories appeared previously in various publications, including The Atlantic Monthly and the Strand Magazine.

The title refers to a verse from Ecclesiastes, which is quoted on the title page: "Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions." (Ecclesiastes 7:29)

## The stories

The fourteen stories are preceded by a poem, "To the True Romance", and followed by another poem, "Anchor Song".

* The Disturber of Traffic
* A Conference of the Powers
* My Lord the Elephant
* One View of the Question
* 'The Finest Story in the World'
* His Private Honour
* A Matter of Fact
* The Lost Legion
* In the Rukh - the earliest (Mowgli) story but chronologically the last
* 'Brugglesmith'
* 'Love-o’-Women'
* The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot
* Judson and the Empire
* The Children of the Zodiac
