Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-11-16

OF the day
MEDICAL SOCIETY," OF SHELBY MEDICAL. COLIRGE.--
The anniversary of this society took place last eve
ming at the lecture room of the Shelby Medical Col
lege There was not only large attendance Of the
students and gentlemen interested in medical mat
ters bat also a fair sprinklng Of erlnone to relieve
the professional austerity.
The exercises Of the evening were commenced
by PRAYER by Rev. DR.. SEHoS. DIR. CALENDER, the
late President Of the Society, then addressed the
members on the Importance and advantage of So
eiety like theirs. He thanked them for the manner
in which he had been sustained during his term Of
Office and congratulated them the happy choice
of his successor. Dr. MADDN whom he then intro
dueed. Dr. MADDEN spoke briefly Of the plan of the
Society and of its adaptation to the ends desired,
and introduced Mr.. J. HAsELT SnMoNDs the 2a' u
tatory orator.
Mr. SnndoNDs read an excellent address. He urg-
ed high standard of mental culture and celebrat
ed his profession as the noblest of all human pur
suits. He urged devotion to study, and warned his
fellow-aborers against the attractions of female
loneliness for fear their attentions might not be re-
ciprocated Judging from the audience assembled
10 lend counenanee their proceedings, there is no
danger of such result.
The exercises were all interesting and were clos
!. led with benedction by Rev. DIR. SEHoN
z GARrr THEArRE-THE WLDOw's STRArEGEM.-The
pepper trick mentioned in our last prevented from
entirely understanding this piece its first produc
tion We now endesvor to give our readers some
idea OF its merits any rate of its Specification.
We will premise that it is Enthusiastically French
when therefore. it is announced to be 1rTjten ex-
pressIv for Mrs FARRE will venture to substitute
translated and then proceed to our task.
Heetor de Renneville is in love with Jeanette de
Clermont, and engaged to her, they are both very
innocent Madame de Flosssc is a widow, and very
much the reverse, in fact dreadful widow-a Wild
ow to Justify the EXTREMIST antiyiduan preJudlces
of Anthony Weller, Esq. She also is IN love with
Victor and bent upon preventing the match 1or
this purpose the srIrJsm IS devised; it Is founded
bpon a little event which had happened a year be
fore and which the risk of spelling the interest
of the tale We viii ted at once though 1t Is not told
in the play till the end of the third act At that
time then n II. St Yulery, not one of the drdndt'S
4,srSoae had Just jumped out Of the window OF the
widow private apartment into the garden OF Made
unoiselIe de Clermont's mother, and the young lady
only rescued him from being worried TO death by
the family bulldog by assuming careSSlng attitude
towards him. which was witnessed by stupid Old
Gardiner W no imagined stupid old sarce Ter
would he apt TO imagine
Madame de p lossac mauages to INFORM the ''her
of Victor of those events scandalously interpreted
which for a time dslers the marriage though the
Young lady is not informed why. One evening qul'e
nv accident she iunocently informs her mother ana
VrroR of the history Of the garden scene, and me
bulldog and the worrying. which sets things at
rights as far as the lover and mother are concerned
hut does not if we und rstand, satisfy the old Mar
shall on whom the widow has matrimonial designs
which we are unable exactly to reconcile with her
passion for Victor but it ia all in Paris which viii
account for anythlng)
Suffice it that the young man induces her by a
stratagem to decar her real purposes and motives
including her love for him, before concealed wit
nesses. when she begs pardon Of every one, says
she is pentent that the gentlemen who jumped out
of her window had been concealed there to save
him from arrest for political troubles 1--WE are gal
liant enough 10 take her word for IT, and then sh'
roads the Young man a lecture for his mean
ness in requiting her love he had done Hha
he had really done was to unmask an infamous
Mot against the girl he was going to marry
hut she said it all cleyery that we for the time
agreed with her and the young man did look NEAR
.ne1rh TO satisfy any one. There is NJ Destou
a hiere who is in the widows secrets and compelled
20 aid her by the fact of owing her 10000 francs h
afterwards manages to pay her and turns agains
her. though we were unable to understand how h
aided in forwarding her plans at first or in thwart
ing them afterwards-the part, however, wa
amusingly played by Mr.. kEEBLE.
of course Mrs. FARREg played the widow ar
Mss FARRzx the young lady, and the interest ARCS
from the contrast between the intriguing, subtl
snirit of the widow and the cbid-like Innocence O
the girl both which characteristics were sdmirabl
given bv the two ladies. 1t is stirring busting
plsy with good deal of smart dialogue, rather IL
,ouprskensible sometimes, but always amusing
We are inclined to think the plot has been httl
mystiied by pruning the French original so as
avoid offending American scruples-so much tn
better 1t quite French enough as 1t is-but harm
less and. as we said before, amusing; what is IN
comprehensive in IT had, perhaps, better not b
somprehended. Our inference is, that Ameri
lean pay writers had better take American subject
ard work them out according to American sent
lusuts. French plays, when rendered moral in tn
American sense Of the word are always either u
meaning. or. At least, unintelligble.
TxrrvPrEaScE AxosG WoNEN-A SAD SCENE !