[Illustration: THE SECOND DEGREE Page 129.] YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD By OLIVER OPTIC NORTHERN LANDS. BOSTON LEE & SHEPARD. _YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD--SECOND SERIES._ NORTHERN LANDS; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA. A STORY OF TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE. BY WILLIAM T. ADAMS (_OLIVER OPTIC_), AUTHOR OF "OUTWARD BOUND," "SHAMROCK AND THISTLE," "RED CROSS," "DIKES AND DITCHES," "PALACE AND COTTAGE," "DOWN THE RHINE," "UP THE BALTIC," ETC. BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS. NEW YORK: LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM. 1872. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, BY WILLIAM T. ADAMS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, 19 Spring Lane. TO MY EXCELLENT FRIEND THE HON. DAVIS DIVINE, OF SAN JOSÉ, CALIFORNIA, WHOSE ACQUAINTANCE I HAD THE PLEASURE OF MAKING IN ST. PETERSBURG, AND WITH WHOM I TRAVELLED THROUGH RUSSIA, AUSTRIA, TURKEY, ITALY, SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL, This Volume IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD. BY OLIVER OPTIC. A Library of Travel and Adventure in Foreign Lands. First and Second Series; six volumes in each Series. 16mo. Illustrated. _First Series._ I. _OUTWARD BOUND_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA AFLOAT. II. _SHAMROCK AND THISTLE_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND. III. _RED CROSS_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES. IV. _DIKES AND DITCHES_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. V. _PALACE AND COTTAGE_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND. VI. _DOWN THE RHINE_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN GERMANY. _Second Series._ I. _UP THE BALTIC_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN NORWAY, SWEDEN, AND DENMARK. II. _NORTHERN LANDS_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA. III. _CROSS AND CRESCENT_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN TURKEY AND GREECE. In preparation. IV. _SUNNY SHORES_; OR, YOUNG AMERICAN IN ITALY AND AUSTRIA. In preparation. V. _VINE AND OLIVE_; OR, YOUNG AMERICAN IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. In preparation. VI. _ISLES OF THE SEA_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA HOMEWARD BOUND. In preparation. PREFACE.