THE LAZY DAYS OF SUMMER COOKBOOK

For fans of the ``Pioneer Lady,'' another nostalgic collection (after The Country Mother's Cookbook, 1991) of country-style recipes (heavy in the sweets department), sentimental verse (by James Whitcomb Riley and the like), memories of simple pleasures and special celebrations from a Thirties childhood (with family anecdotes from further back), and old illustrations to match. The recipes are for genuine old favorites or worthy family favorites; the rest is shameless mush—but the combination seems to have worked so far, and the summer setting here—with its ice-cream socials and gazebo tea and Fourth-of-July picnic—is a natural one for Hopping's traffic in fond recollections. (Fifty halftones, fifty line drawings—not seen.)