Manacorda Manacorda (G.), _Storia della scuola in Italia_, volume I, _Il medio evo_, Milan, 1913 (2 parts in separate volumes). Manitius Manitius (M.), _Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters_, Munich, 1911, 2 vols. (in Von Mueller’s Handbuch der klassischen Alterthums-Wissenschaft, IX, ii). Mearns Mearns (J.), _Early Latin hymnaries_, an index of hymns in hymnaries before 1100, Cambridge (University Press), 1913. MGH _Monumenta Germaniæ historica_ (cited by page of the appropriate volume). NE _Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale ..._ (cited by volume, part, and page). PL _Patrologia latina_ (Migne, cited by volume and column). CHAPTER I THE SOPHISTIC TREND IN ANCIENT RHETORIC REFERENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS Ameringer Ameringer (T. E.), _The stylistic influence of the second sophistic on the panegyrical sermons of St. John Chrysostom_, Washington, 1921 (Catholic University of America Patristic Studies). ARP Baldwin (C. S.), _Ancient rhetoric and poetic_, New York, 1924. Boulanger Boulanger (A.), _Ælius Aristide et la sophistique dans la province d’Asie au ii siècle de notre ère_, Paris, 1923. Burgess Burgess (T. C.), _Epideictic literature_, University of Chicago Studies in Classical Philology III (1902), 89-251. Campbell Campbell (J. M.), _The influence of the second sophistic on the style of the sermons of St. Basil the Great_, Washington, 1922. Guignet Guignet (M.), _St. Grégoire de Nazianze, orateur et épistolier_, Paris, 1911. Hubbell Hubbell (H. M.), _The influence of Isocrates on Cicero, Dionysius, and Aristides_, New Haven (Yale dissertation), 1914. Méridier Méridier (L.), _L’influence de la seconde sophistique sur l’œuvre de Grégoire de Nysse_, Paris, 1906. Wright Wright (W. C), _Philostratus and Eunapius, the lives of the sophists_, with an English translation, London and New York, Loeb Library, 1922. A. THE TWO HISTORIC CONCEPTIONS OF RHETORIC