On the best street of an unnamed city stands the Mausoleum Club, where the most expensive kind of birds sing in the elms and plutocrats like Mr. Lucullus Fyshe dine. Leacock follows its members through a wizard of finance who knows nothing, Mrs. Rasselyer-Brown’s Yahi-Bahi Oriental Society, the rival churches of St. Asaph and St. Osoph, and a great fight for clean government.
Leacock’s sharpest satire, a city companion to Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town that still lands its punches. Download the free EPUB.