Excerpt from The Diaries of William Charles Macready, Vol. 1 of 2: 1833-1851 On his return to England, after a short and somewhat featureless interval at Drury Lane (where he came into contact with another indi vidual also destined to become a formidable enemy, Alfred Bunn), Macready paid a visit to Paris, the eclat Of which went far to com pensate him for the uneventfulness of his recent appearances in London. The Parisian Press, in fact, acclaimed him with an almost universal chorus of praise, the culminating honour being paid by Jules Janin, who went so far as to pronounce him the equal of Talma. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.