This book is devoted to the Erie Canal, the Panama canal and other American canals. Certain chapters are also devoted to the conservation of our natural resources. Statistics are given of the commerce carried by the various artificial waterways of the world.
—Marine Review, Volume 45 [1915]
A well-known man of affairs, Mr. A. Barton Hepburn, of New York, has made in his Artificial waterways of the world an excellent contribution to the popular literature of canals and their place in the world's system of transportation. His book deals with the chief canals and canal systems of the world, but gives the largest share of attention to the canal system of New York and to the Panama Canal.
—Educational Review, Volume 50 [1915]