Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

• A Little Dinner with Mr. Lucullus Fyshe • The Wizard of Finance • The Arrested Philanthropy of Mr. Tomlinson • The Yahi-Bahi Oriental Society of Mrs. Rasselyer-Brown • The Love Story of Mr. Peter Spillikins • The Rival Churches of St. Asaph and St. Osoph • The Ministrations of the Rev. Uttermust Dumfarthing • The Great Fight for Clean Government ==Characters==

• Mr. Lucullus Fyshe • Rev. Edward Fareforth Furlong, the Reverend for St. Astaph's • Miss Phillpa Furlong • Juliana Furlong, the sister to Rev. Furlong • The Duke of Dulham • Mr. Asmodeus Boulder • Dr. Boomer, the President of Plutoria University • Mr. Tomlinson, the Wizard of Finance • Mrs. Tomlinson • Fred Tomlinson • Dr. Boyster • Mr. Skinyer, a lawyer for Skinyer-Beatem • Mr. Rasselyer-Brown • Mrs. Rasselyer-Brown • Miss Dulphemia Rasselter-Brown • Mr. Yahi-Bahi, a character who caricatures the religious leader 'Abdu'l-Bahá, who visited Leacock's resident city of Montreal in 1912. • Mr. Sikleigh Snoop, the sex-poet • Mr. Ram Spudd • Mrs. Buncomhearst • Miss Snagg • Mr. Peter Spillikins • Mrs. Everleigh-Spillikins • Mr. Edward Ruff • Mr. Newberry • Mrs. Margaret Newberry • Dr. Slyder • The Little Girl in Green • Rev. Dr. McTeague, minister at St. Ostoph's, and professor at Plutoria University • Mr. Dick Overend • Rev. Dr. Uttermost Dumfarthing • Catherine Dumfarthing ==Relation to Sunshine Sketches==

While Arcadian Adventures takes place in an anonymous American city, and focuses upon the wealthy of that metropolis, Sunshine Sketches revolves around a small Canadian town, the fictional Mariposa, and her inhabitants. Indeed, where Arcadian Adventures begins at the 'Mausoleum Club', Sunshine Sketches concludes in one. but actually based in Montreal. In many ways, the works should be read in tandem, as Sunshine Sketches exemplifies Leacock's ideal community, from the perspective of a traditional Tory, and Arcadian Adventures the vision to be avoided. He ultimately sought "a middle way between socialism and liberalism". ==Influences==

Leacock, as an economist, had studied under Thorstein Veblen at the University of Chicago, and his The Theory of the Leisure Class permeates the book with influence. ==Reviews==

Per the Chicago Evening Post: "Crisp conversation and paragraphs jammed with American sarcasm of the gilt-edged variety characterize this latest effort of a really humorous humorist. Mr. Leacock penetrates upper-class sham and satirizes it cheerfully. This is almost certain to generate little chuckles and long smiles for the intelligent proletarian who treats himself to these 'adventures.'" ==See also==