IDYLLS OF THE KING. Twelve poems by Tennyson, published between 1842 and 1885, based on the Arthurian romances. The titles are: "The Coming of Arthur," "Gareth and Lynette," ''The Marriage of Geraint," "Geraint and Enid," "Balin and Balan," "Merlin and Vivien," "Lancelot and Elaine," "The Holy Grail," "Pelleas and Ettarre," "The Last Tournit ment," "Guinevere," "The Passing of Arthur." IDZt, 'dzr). One of the fifteen provinces of Japan which make up the Thkaid0 or 'East Sea Circuit,' and through which the highway called the Tokaido runs. It is a mountainous penin sula, with numerous bays and promontories, 32 miles long and 16 wide, lying between the bays of Sagami on the east and Suruga on the west. Geologically and orographically it forms part of the volcanic range of mountains with which the name Hakone is associated. Its most important river is the kanoga•a, which flows north into Suruga Bay, and its highest peak is Amagi-san, with a height of about 4800 feet. its chief towns are Mishima, on the T6kaido, and the small but beautiful port of Shimoda, on the southeast coast. The rearing of silkworms and the reeling
of silk form the principal industry of the penin sula. It abounds in hot springs and watering places, the chief of which is Atatni, about 45 miles from Yokohama. To ldzu belong, both geologically and politically, the 'Seven Volcanic Islands,' of which Oshima or Vries Island, 38 miles from the mainland, is the chief, and fur ther south Hachi-joshima, long used as a place of banishment. See Rein, Japan (London, 1884) and Satow and Ilawes, Handbook for Travellers in Central and Xorthern Japan (Yokohama. 1881).
IERNE, 1-er'n& An ancient Greek name for Ireland.
IF, ef. A rocky island about two miles west of Marseilles, with a castle, the Chilteau d'l f, built in 1529, and later used as a State prison. In it \liraheau, Philippe Egalite. and others were confined. The castle is most widely known through Dumas's Count of Monte