including Vasile Alecsandri and Bonifaciu Florescu. He was thus a speaker at Alecsandri's funeral in 1890, and the last person to visit Florescu upon the latter's death in 1899. From 1885 to 1889, with Macedonski absent from Romania, he published his own "Macedonskian" literary review, Analele Literare ("Literary Annals"). The magazine had contributions from Symbolists such as Traian Demetrescu and from Macedonski himself. However, it mainly included academic articles by Florescu, Hasdeu, and other scholars: Anghel Demetriescu, Gheorghe Ghibănescu, Petre Ispirescu, and Lazăr Șăineanu. In its first issues, Analele Literare also hosted Demetriade debut play, În noaptea nunții ("On Their Wedding Night"), called a "weak comedy" by the traditionalist Nicolae Iorga. In addition to the Literatorul (or Revista Literară), he also published in the various Macedonskian satellite reviews, from Iuliu Cezar Săvescu and Florescu's Dumineca to Petroff's Hermes. Demetriade's other contributions were hosted by various Symbolist or mainstream publications, among them Telegraful Român, Vieața Nouă, Revista Orientală, Unirea, Naționalul, Fântâna Blanduziei, Ileana, Liga Literară, and Generația Nouă. During the elections of 1892, he registered himself as a voter in the 1st College, a resident of Olari, Bucharest. After În noaptea nunții, which was to be premiered at the National Theater in 1900, Demetriade focused mainly on versified plays which were picturesque and had a fairy-tale ambience: Făt-Frumos ("Prince Charming"), 1889; Renegatul ("The Renegade"), 1893; Opere dramatice ("Works in Drama"), 1905. According to the literary critic George Călinescu, Renegatul was "monotonous and artistically modest", "abundant in the stuff of operetta songs". The work shows a disabused engineer, Mahmud (played by Nottara in the 1893 staging), falling for the charms of the Orient; then returning to modern life under the spell of his new slave, a fellow Romanian "working girl". The text adapted synesthesic metaphors in depicting Mahmud's suicidal torpor, induced by tobacco or hashish. With Ioan Bacalbașa, Demetriade co-wrote a history play, variously known as Asan or Frații Asan, which was part of the National Theater program in 1898 and 1899. The work dealt with the rise of Ivan Asen, founder of the Second Bulgarian Empire, and generally adhered to the factual narrative. However, as reviewer Ion Gorun argued, the play made Ivan seem "disagreeable", and was overall lacking in "uplifting emotions". Demetriade's other poems were rhetorical, the imagery and themes romantic and Baudelairean; their subjects included demonism, genius, spiritual ascension and melancholy ("spleen"). His more experimental pieces included the 1906