Upon Crainic's return, the magazine was struggling with both financial difficulties and the censorship enforced by Carol's bureaucracy. Between that date and October 1938, it published a series of special issues dedicated to various proudly reactionary figures on the public stage (writer Ioan Alexandru Brătescu-Voinești, physician and antisemitic agitator Nicolae Paulescu), as well as to specific episodes in the history of Romania (between the age of Wallachian Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu and the 1916 Battle of Romania). Ornea describes this series as "rather insipid", noting that they signaled commercial failure: "Sfarmă-Piatră" turned into a monthly magazine, and was published as such until October 1938. Among the other main features of that period were two feuilletons: one was a Romanian-language translation of Hitler's "Mein Kampf", the other was Brătescu-Voinești's essay on "Germanophobia". Also featured in this series were "Cronici germane" ("German Chronicles"), by Baciu. As the author himself explained, these were supposed to familiarize the public with various aspects of German culture, focusing especially on "that superb German Romanticism".