cover image Splendid Outcast/

Splendid Outcast/

Beryl Markham. Laurel Press, $7.5 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-440-50030-8

Written in the '40s, these eight fictions and West with the Night comprise Markham's known written work. ``About horses, flying and romance, the early autobiographical stories in particular are vivid with details of African custom and landscape gleaned from the author's early life in Kenya,'' wrote PW , but the volume's more commercial tales are less satisfying . (October)