THE DEVIL’S JESTER. By Nita O. Thompson. Price 10/6; postage 4d.. . Courage and cowardice, humour and pathos, mystery and treachery are skilfully interwoven in this absorbing tale, which embodies all the chivalry and gaiety of the stirring seventeenth century times.’’ A blending of the “Georgette I lever and th “Scarlet Pimpernel styles make it a novel that appeals.