30 JANUARY 1915, Page 37

The greater part of Artificial Waterways of the World, by

A. Barton Hepburn (Macmillan and Co., 5s. 6d. net), deals with the canal system of the State of New York, and points out the advantages to be obtained by rescuing this system from the neglect which the competition of railways produced —as in England—during the second half of the nineteenth century. There is a brief account of the Panama Canal and other great American waterways.