13 DECEMBER 1856, Page 10

If the art of embodying high tragic ideals is verging

towards oblivion, we have some extraordinary instances of talent in the accurate repre- sentation of thorough reality. For perfection of detail, the delineation by Mr. Webster of the debauched scamp in Janet Pride, revived this week at the Adelphi, could not be excelled. A series of photographs, setting forth the entire progress of this character through all the phases of low insolence, maudlin drunkenness, and harrowing remorse, would convey to future antiquaries a truthful portraiture of the peculiar aspect of sin in the nineteenth century, that it might be hard to find elsewhere.