Discusses the merits of various English writers including Edmund Burke, George Eliot, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Lord Lytton, and Hen

Lauds Dyce's, White's, Howard Stauton's, and H.H. Furness's Shakespeare editions. He considers the "Cambridge Edition" to be the very best.

Hudson comments on the modernization of Chaucer and Shakespeare's language and lists a variety of writers in response to a question from Dooley.

Regarding the editing and printing of some of his notes on Shakespeare.

Discusses his work on a new edition of Shakespeare, mentioning Joseph Crosby.