Books: After Indian Summer

ROUGHLY SPEAKING — Louise Randall Pierson—Simon and Schuster ($2.50).

The house where Louise Randall lived as a child stood above the bridge in Quincy, Mass. H. H. Richardson, great American architect, built it. In the warm haze of New England's Indian summer, life there was magical.

When Louise looked out of her bedroom window, she could see the Adamses walking around their box-bordered garden next door. Early each morning Father Randall, with his brilliantined beard and his hearty manner, took Louise to the stables to feed sugar to the horses while they were...

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