19 AUGUST 1893, Page 26

I, Too. By Mrs. Gerard Ford. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—

Ursula Carlton tells her story,—a love-story, of course, and there- fore, equally of course, a story of cross-purposes. Lovers in fiction, it is well known, entertain a rooted;dielike to explanations, The characters in this story share this peculiarity. The result is a certain amount of irritation in the reader,—mitigated, it is true, by the spirit with which, for the most part, the story is told.