5 OCTOBER 1929, Page 46

TO-MORROW NEVER COMES. By R. L. Duffus. (Harrap. 7s. 6d.)—This

is a very clever and vivacious comedy of a week's events in a Latin American republic, where love, politics, and business are inextricably tangled, and where, since life is cheap and uncertain, no thought of to-morrow is allowed to spoil the pleasure of to-day. The trouble begins when young Rafael Gomez falls in love with a girl who has attracted General Hernandez, generalissimo of the army of Santa Eulalia. The ensuing complications involve a civil war and a revolution, and the voluptuous President is overthrown in favour of a shoemaker who is one of the leading characters of the book, and whose philosophy is engagingly made to reflect the cynical opportunism of Eulalian society. The picture is deliberately overdrawn, and the idyllic conclusion is somewhat out of keeping with it. But irony and humour are, on the whole, well sustained, and the story is excellent fun.