title: Many Inventions
text: # 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
  