The writers of the first kind of description aim first of all to please. Their writings may give us higher ideas of beauty or make us more interested in persons, animals, or places. They may even give us useful information. But the author does not pretend to be scientifically accurate. He shows us how the thing he describes affects him personally. We see through the descriptions the writer himself, with his peculiarities, fancies, prejudices, and whims. And we like what he writes partly because we like him.