SOURCE: "A House-Party," in The Dial, Vol. LXXXV, September, 1928, pp. 258-60.

In the following review of Armed with Madness, Moore praises Butts's lyrical writing style.

"The sea lay three parts round the house, invisible because of the wood. . . . The people who had the house were interested in the wood and its silence." "Poverty and pride, cant and candor, raw flesh and velvet" seem collectively to ask, "Are we never to have any peace, only adventure and pain?" to say "there is no good will left anywhere in the world."

They were Drusilla Taverner—"Scylla"; Carston, an American; Picus "unnaturally supple"; Carston "had seen him pick up something behind him with his hands as if it had been in front"; Clarence "with a feeling for decoration best served in cities." "One rougher and shorter, fairer, better bred, called Ross. Then a boy, Scylla's brother Felix Taverner."

"Ross arranged their...