Debits and Credits (book)


Debits and Credits is a 1926 collection of fourteen stories, nineteen poems, and two scenes from a play by Rudyard Kipling, an English writer who wrote extensively about British colonialism in India and Burma. Four of the poems that accompany the stories are whimsically presented as translations from the "Bk. V of Odes" by Horace, but are actually poems by Kipling imitating the style of the Roman poet.

Contents

Stories

  • "The Enemies to Each Other"
  • "Sea Constables: a Tale of ’15"
  • " 'In the Interests of the Brethren' "
  • "The United Idolaters"
  • "The Wish House"
  • "The Janeites"
  • "The Prophet and the Country"
  • "The Bull that Thought"
  • "A Madonna of the Trenches"
  • "The Propagation of Knowledge"
  • "A Friend of the Family"
  • "On the Gate: a Tale of ’16"
  • "The Eye of Allah"
  • "The Gardener"

Poems

Play Fragments

  • Gow’s Watch : Act IV. Sc. 4
  • Gow’s Watch: Act V. Sc. 3