Complex sentence: Hogaș insisted on making the manuscript corrections himself, but the copies were destroyed because they contained a devastating number of typographical errors; the new edition, from 1914, was almost entirely destroyed in a fire that burned down the warehouse of "Viața Românească".
Split into simpler sentences: Hogaș insisted on making the manuscript corrections himself, but the copies were destroyed because they contained a devastating number of typographical errors. The new edition, from 1914, was almost entirely destroyed in a fire that destroyed the warehouse of "Viața Românească".