text:  The Sword which with its edge hews through all armour and with its "plat" heals the else incurable wounds of its own inflicting--the Mirror which discloses the plotting of the kingdom's enemies the truth or disloyalty of a distant lover--the Ring which enables its wearer to understand the "leden" of all birds and to answer them in the same--and the marvellous Horse of Brass which with turning of a pin and with a whisper in the ear carries his rider whither he would through the air vanishes and comes with a wish and farthermore behaves and comports himself wholly after the best fashion of a horse;--these four gifts from the King of Arabie and Inde to the Tartar king and his daughter transport us as with a flight of the magical courser himself into the deep wild and mystical heart of that region unplaced by geographers explored by the host of dreamers Romance