There is a letter in the Kipling Journal, Oct 1944,
No.71, p.15 that raises this question as follows:

 " WHY WAS THE STORY MUTILATED?"
Has any member noticed what I haven't until now—that
in the 1st edn. of the Second Jungle Book the story
"The King's Ankus " ends with the words—" Close to the
fire, and blazing in the sunshine, lay the ruby and
turquoise ankus."    This is the end of a paragraph
occupying a quarter of p. 139, and the rest of the
page is filled  by an  ankus.
I have the first printing of this story in the
American St. Nicholas for March, 1895, and it carries
on to an artistic end, as does our 2nd edn., and the
Tauschnitz edn. Why was the story mutilated in its
first book form ?—T. E. Elwell, Drew's Court,
Churchdown, Gloucester. 

J.McG. Stewart in his "Rudyard Kipling: A
Bibliographical Catalogue", Toronto, 1959, confirms
this and describes the three editions (1st and 2nd
English plus 1st American) as follows:

FIRST (ENGLISH) EDITION
132* [vignette] | THE | SECOND JUNGLE BOOK | By
RUDYARD KIPLING | [vignette] | WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY |
J. LOCKWOOD KIPLING, C.I.E. | LONDON | MACMILLAN AND
CO. |
AND NEW YORK | [October] 1895 | All rights reserved.
8vo (7 1/2 X 5 1/16; leaf 7 1/4 X 4 7/8). In blue
cloth; decorations and lettering in gold on front
cover and spine; gilt edges; greenish-black
end-papers.
Collation (4 leaves, pp. 238, 1 leaf): blank leaf,
fore-title, title page, Contents, 4 leaves; text, pp.
[l]-238; advertisements, 1 leaf. Illustrations include
18 head and tail pieces and 16 decorated initial
letters. Imprint on p. 238: Printed by R. & R. Clark,
Limited, Edinburgh'. Signature marks: B, C, D, etc. on
pp. [1], 17, 33, etc.
CONTENTS
'How Fear Came' (with 14-line heading 'The stream is
shrunk'), Pall Mall Budget (with 8 illustrations and a
headpiece by Cecil Aldin), June 7 and 14, New York
World, June 10, Pall Mall Gazette, June 14 and 15,
1894, with title 'A Strange Tale of the Jungle' (U.S.
copyright No. 31920, June 14, 1894, in the New York
World); 'The Law of the Jungle', A Victorian
Anthology, 1895, with the title 'The Law of the
Wolves'; 'The Miracle of Purun Bhagat' (with three
4-line stanzas 'Dirge of the Langurs'), New York
World, October 14, Pall Mall Gazette, Pall Mall
Budget, October 18, 1894,
with the title 'A Miracle of the Present Day' (U.S.
copyright No. 47273, October 10, 1894, in the New York
World); 'A Song of Kabir'; 'Letting in the Jungle'
(with 10-line heading 'Veil them, cover them . . .'),
Pall Mall Gazette, December 12 and 13, Pall Mall
Budget (with 8 illustrations and head and tail pieces
by Cecil Aldin), December 13, 1894, with 'Mowgli's
Song' as heading, McClure's Magazine (with 8
illustrations and a head piece by W. A. C. Pape),
January, 1895, without heading; 'Mowgli's Song against
People', Pall Mall Magazine, December, 1894; 'The
Undertakers' (with 2-line heading 'When ye say to
Tabaqui, My Brother'), New York World, November 8, 9,
10, and 12, Pall Mall Budget, November 8 and 15, Pall
Mall Gazette, November 14 and 15, Pall Mall Magazine,
December, 1894 (U.S. copyright No. 52829, November 12,
1894, in the New York World); 'A Ripple Song'; 'The
King's Ankus' (with 2-line 'Jungle Saying' as
heading), St. Nicholas, March, 1895, with 'The Song of
the Little Hunter' as heading, and five illustrations
by W. A. C. Pape; 'The Song of the Little Hunter', St.
Nicholas, March, 1895; 'Quiquern' (with two 4-line
stanzas 'The People of the Eastern Ice' as heading),
Pall Mall Gazette, October 24 and 25 with 'Angutivun
Tina' as heading, McClure's Magazine, November, 1895,
without heading, South African Telegraph, October 26,
1895; 'Angutivun Tina', Pall Mall Gazette, October 24,
1895; 'Red Dog' (with 9-line verse heading 'For our
white and our excellent nights'), Pall Mall Gazette,
July 29 and 30, McClure's Magazine (with 3
illustrations and head and tail pieces by W. A. C.
Pape), August, Civil and Military Gazette, September
19, 20, 22, 26, 27, 29, 1895, with title "Good
Hunting", separately, 1895; 'Chil's Song', collected
in Songs from Books; 'The Spring Running' (with two
4-line stanzas 'Man goes to man'), Pall Mall Gazette,
September 25, Cosmopolitan (with 2 full-page plates
and 11 other illustrations by W. H. Drake), October,
Civil and Military Gazette, September 27, 28, 30,
October 4, 5, 7, 1895, with the title 'Mowgli Leaves
the Jungle Forever'; 'The Outsong' (with an additional
line preceding the final line in the American edition.
In this edition 'The King's Ankus' is approximately
515 words shorter than the same story in the American
edition. This omission was corrected in the second
English edition. The poems were all collected in the
English edition of Songs from Books, 1913. The
original typescript of 'The Miracle of Purun Bhagat',
'The Undertakers', and 'The King's Ankus' with
corrections by Kipling were shown at the Grolier Club
Exhibition. The Second Jungle Book was issued in grey
pictorial wrappers with printing and three decorative
sketches reproduced in dark blue.
SECOND ENGLISH EDITION
33* [vignette] | THE | SECOND JUNGLE BOOK | By RUDYARD
KIPLING | [vignette] | WITH DECORATIONS BY | J.
LOCKWOOD KIPLING, C.I.E.. | LONDON | MACMILLAN AND CO.
| AND NEW YORK | [December] 1895 | All rights
reserved.
Format and contents are the same as No. 132 except
that there are 240 pp. of text instead of 238 pp.
There is no leaf of advertisements at the end, and the
imprint appears at the bottom of p. 240.
In the first English edition 'The King's Ankus' stops
abruptly at line 8, page 139. In the second edition
the additional 514 words are supplied, and the story
ends on line 6, page 141.
On the verso of the title page of the second edition
appears the statement: 'First Edition printed November
1895 | Reprinted December 1895'. The first printing
was in fact in October, 1895, followed by reprintings
in December, 1895, and in 1897 and 1899. The types
were reset for the Uniform edition in 1899, and there
were reprintings in 1901, 1903, 1906, 1908, 1910,
1913, 1915, 1918, 1920 (twice), 1923, 1924, 1930,
1936, 1940, 1944, and 1948. In 1950 the types were
again reset for the Library edition, which was
reprinted in 1952.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
134* [vignette] | THE | SECOND JUNGLE BOOK | BY |
RUDYARD KIPLING | [vignette] | DECORATED BY | JOHN
LOCKWOOD KIPLING, C.I.E. | NEW YORK | THE CENTURY CO.
| 1895.
8vo (7 3/4 X 5 3/8; leaf 7 1/2 X 5 1/8). In terra
cotta cloth; designs blind-stamped with lettering in
gold on front cover and spine; gilt top.
Collation (5 leaves, pp. 324, 1 leaf): fore-title,
title page with copyright note and imprint on verso,
quotation, Contents, sub-title with verses on verso, 5
leaves; text, pp. 1-324; blank leaf. Eighteen head and
tail pieces and 16 decorated initial letters are
included. Imprint: 'THE DE VINNE PRESS'. Signature
marks: 1, 2, 3, etc. on pp. 1, 17, 33, etc.
Filed for copyright: October 29, 1895.
The contents are the same as the English edition, but
there are numerous differences in the text. This
edition is also found bound in green cloth with
lettering and decorations in gold and black. The same
types were used for volumes in the Authorized and
Trade editions in 1899.

With best regards

David Page
Harrow UK


	
	
        	
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