NEW YEAR'S DAY, we have always understood, is the time for turning over new leaves. It is also the time for making a record in the new diary of those pious intentions. If this is not as true today as it was in the days of our.grandfathers, that is because it seems more generally agreed, with Byron, that good intentions lead nowhere that is desirable. Indeed, who keeps diaries at all these days—diaries, the lost art of quill-pens and candle-shine and a contented mind ? Perhaps Mr. E. V. Knox (' Evoe ' of Punch) i going to advocate a return to this genteel habit —we only know that he is a first-rate humorist and will give us. an amusing talk.