The young polemicist persevered in supporting this anti-establishment cause, moving on from "L'Indépendance Roumaine" to the newly established publication "România Jună", interrupting himself for trips to Italy, the Netherlands and Galicia-Lodomeria. In 1900, he collected the scattered polemical articles into the French-language books "Opinions sincères. La vie intellectuelle des roumains en 1899" ("Honest Opinions. The Romanians' Intellectual Life in 1899") and "Opinions pérnicieuses d'un mauvais patriote" ("The Pernicious Opinions of a Bad Patriot"). His scholarly activities resulted in a second trip into Transylvania, a second portion of his Bistrița archives collection, the 11th Hurmuzachi volume, and two works on early modern Romanian history: "Acte din secolul al XVI-lea relative la Petru Șchiopul" ("16th Century Acts Relating to Peter the Lame") and "Scurtă istorie a lui Mihai Viteazul" ("A Short History of Michael the Brave"). His controversial public attitude had nevertheless attracted an official ban on his Academy reports, and also meant that he was ruled out from the national Academy prize (for which distinction he had submitted "Documente românești din arhivele Bistriței"). The period also witnessed a chill in the Iorga's relationship with Xenopol.