29 MAY 1915, Page 23

New Enrrzoces.—A second edition bee appeared, with a new preface,

but with no other changes, of Mr. Havelock Ellis's volume of essays, Affirmations (Constable and Co., 6s. net). It was originally published in 1897, and contains papers upon Nietzsche, Casanova, Zola, Haysmans, and St. Francis of Assisi.—The fifth edition of Mr. Charles A. Conant's History of Modern Banks of Issue (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 15e. net) includes a new chapter upon " The Banks in the European War."