The confiding Lovro Bojanec goes through many experiences and later finds his way into family life, the hard-working and exemplary Dr. Vladimir Dragan becomes a tragic ruin, and the dandy exploiter Radivoj Čuk continually proclaims his patriotism while sitting in Viennese cafés.

Various era-specific questions are addressed (sometimes with a learning curve and/or light irony) in the short novels Rodoljubje na deželi (1908), Novo življenje (1908), Delo in denar (1910), Sošolci (1911), Tujski promet (1912), Svetloba in senca (1916), and Vest in zakon (1927).

His best comedies and satires include Kislo grozdje (1833), Žrtva razmer (1912), Spominska plošča (1914), Trpljenje značajnega moža (1916), Nova metoda (1917), and Kapitalist Rak (1923).

He also wrote the short historical novels Hudi časi (1894, describing the time of the Illyrian provinces) and Takšni so (1900, about Catholic martyrs in the Protestant era, but they are thought to be lacking in terms of content.

The positive subjects are typically good, honest, hard-working, and persistent, whereas the negative are parasites, self-interested, fake patriots, speculative, and overly focused on the art or religion.