[Gutenberg 19874] • Bubbles of the Foam

Francis William Bain (1863-1940) was a British writer of fantasy stories that he claimed were translated from Sanskrit. The first of these was *A Digit of the Moon* (1898), which Bain claimed was his translation of a Sanskrit manuscript given to him by a brahmin.

During Bain's life, argument raged about whether the story was truly a translation or whether Bain had written it himself. The book contains numerous footnotes referring to Sanskrit puns and wordplay that the author claimed to have been unable to render in English.

Bain followed it up with a number of other stories in the same mode, including this one, *Bubbles of the Foam*