13 JANUARY 1894, Page 25

The Woman at Home, otherwise "Annie S. Swan's Magazine," seems

to have firmly established itself as an enjoyable mélange of letterpress and illustration, fact and fiction, cookery and dress, marriages and nursery chatter, specially adapted—or supposed to be specially adapted—to the comprehension of women. A little and almost lurid bit of autobiography, by Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, entitled "A Backwoods Childhood ; " "Daniel Jacobs : an Idyll of Dartmoor," by Mr. Baring-Gould—and wonderfully idyllic for him ; and "Among the Fjords with Edvard Grieg," are among the most interesting contents of an excellent number.