12 DECEMBER 1903, Page 3

We regret to record the death of Mr. Herbert Spencer

on Tuesday at Brighton in his eighty-fourth year. Mr. Spencer, who has always been a delicate man, has succeeded, like Locke, in living to a great age and doing a vast amount of work by carefulness and simplicity of life. We deal elsewhere with his career, which in many respects is the most notable of our time. His death removes the last great figure of the Victorian age, and also the only English writer of the day whose name can be said to have been a household word throughout the world.