Simplify the following text for a Grade 9 native English-speaking person.
Original: From the 1860s to the 1880s , he collected many volumes of Jewish Short Stories , Polish Short Stories , Galician Short Stories , German Court Stories and Russian Court Stories .
Simplified: From the 1860s to the 1880s he published a number of volumes of Jewish Short Stories , Polish Short Stories , Galician Short Stories , German Court Stories and Russian Court Stories .