Six
Progress is the gradual result of the unending battle between human reason and human instinct, in which the former slowly but surely wins.
Seven
As an athlete trains, as an acrobat painfully tumbles in private, so must the literary aspirant write.
Eight
A classic is a work which gives pleasure to the minority which is intensely and permanently interested in literature.
Nine
It is said that geography makes history. In England, and especially in London, weather makes a good deal of history.
Ten
The one primary essential to literary taste is a hot interest in literature. If you have that, all the rest will come.